skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lobbyists will fill the gap, and 70+ year old judges will rule on the intricacies of nuclear regulation by harkening back to 15th century English law.
Yikes. I use outlook for work. If it gets hacked I couldn’t care less, it’s on my employer between security policies and how they decided to use MS stuff. Personally, I would never trust MS with any my own stuff.
Related work: Mic Wright's diagram of "nepo babies", aka who in the media and politics is related to who else. https://brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/mapped-out
None of those are trespassing. You're permitted to be in your car, you're permitted to be on a park bench, you're permitted to be under a bridge, you're permitted to be in the woods. It's only when you need to be there that it's a crime.
I genuinely expect mass arrests and quasi-deportations of the homeless (along the lines of "we won't prosecute you if you take this bus ticket to San Francisco") over the next few months in red states and in red cities in blue states.
I'm not sure if the plaintiffs' arguments were quite that bad, since the ruling mentions that they raised questions of capacity and "involuntary" situations, ex:

> Plaintiffs insist the Court should extend Robinson to prohibit the
enforcement of laws that proscribe certain acts that are in some sense
“involuntary,” because some homeless individuals cannot help but do
what the law forbids. [...] this Court already rejected it in Powell v. Texas [where] a defendant who had been convicted under a Texas statute making it a crime to “ ‘get drunk or be found in a
state of intoxication in any public place.’ ” [...] argued that his drunkenness was an “‘involuntary’” byproduct of his status as an alcoholic.
Indeed, the United States is abnormal in the statistical sense, and superlative in the moral sense. Free men fear not to bear arms, and so this status befits us.
Most people who encounter Yiddish outside of the religious Jewish community encounter Western Yiddish. Most people who learn Yiddish as a first language today would be speaking Eastern Yiddish (think Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Russia), which has more obviously Slavic elements.

The standard historical explanation for this is that Yiddish began as a Germanic language, and the Eastern dialects developed after Jews were expelled from Germany in the 14th century and migrated East. There were already Jews living there, but the population grew tremendously with the migration.

Paul Wexler's thesis is that the Eastern dialects of Yiddish actually independently descend from early Jewish Slavic languages (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knaanic_language), and the Western dialects are derived from the Eastern ones.
Only seniors will read, and juniors will never have the ability to write and learn. It reminds me of what could happen with programming: a train wreck slowly happening.
The CEO example is intended to demonstrate why "ah good, this'll make the legislature more active" may be too simple.

I'd also prefer a more practical example to argue with.

IMHO my shift on this is due to the practical examples seen over the years, legislature delegating to an agency they create, with judicial review, ends up being a good thing.

I'm honestly unaware of any unjust rule-making that ended up unfairly trampling someone, much less whip-lash back and forth.
The malicious optimism of AI-first companies [video]
I got every self-hosting sysadmin I know to run certificate monitors for sites they maintain but it certainly isn't a common thing to do. I know Cloudflare has a beta certificate monitoring feature which would certainly help a lot with this problem considering their market share if they enable it by default. (Although one problem with this is that they issue backup certificates from other CAs so it'd easily trigger warning fatigue!)

(I wasn't aware of your credentials when I made my previous comment so I assumed you didn't know about mandatory certificate transparency which is a mistake on my part, sorry! I'll make sure to check profile about sections before I assume again.)
everything's a queue in software if you think about it :-). But does sound more like queue than most things
Why? Back in the day you could output a text file directly onto the printer and it would print, possibly interpreting control characters like backspace or carriage return to overwrite existing characters.

For that, the printer would also need to interpret the characters in the correct character set.
Wikipedia and textbooks are not necessarily correct, either and if you don't understand the topic, you really have _no way of knowing if they're correct_. You have to always check multiple sources and chase down references if you want to really know if something is true or not.
Exactly. What i also learned was, that i had to take a (primitive) collision detection into account. Otherwise bodies can come so close to each other, that the gravitational forces can go very high or even to (machine) infinity.
As a native Slavic speaker that can also speak an almost fluent Dutch, and knowing what the quoted Hobbit line says, I can't even see how this having anything to do with Slavic languages is even a discussion.
Thanks! :) I hoped it'd be a Lisp or Smalltalk - great to hear I almost guessed right, though I never imagined an RDBMS to be in the mix :)
> If you have two race cars going in around a track and at one from the other, it still appears to be moving relative to the stands.

Right. Now put the stands on another planet and you start to understand the problem.

We need to be able to see an asteroid at a minimum of of 3-4x the distance between the earth and the sun to have enough time to do anything about it based on the average speed of 40k mph.

Now keep in mind that at that distance you are looking for something as "tiny" as 60 miles across, the accepted size that would unquestionably end life on earth. Something ~1km across would cause mass famine. In 1908 an asteroid less than 200 feet across flattened 80 million trees over an 830 square mile area.
Show HN: Connections/Wordle-Esque Game "Orbits"
I built a fun little daily word game based on word chains that allows you to start with any word!
I just use simple tail-recursion in an event loop to help manage state.

let rec eventLoop state =
let input = getInput ()
let newState = update input state
drawState state;
eventLoop newState

The update function takes an existing state and an input record (key events, etc.), returning a new state (which may have nested records within itself but it is all immutable).

New state is kept by the recursion (passing new state to the same function). The only IO is getting input and drawing, which are inherently side-effecting operations.

I do have nested records, but (at each stage) they get joined into a new parent record. No mutability there.
Agreed. If Congress or Executive agencies don't want the judiciary interpreting the laws in various ways they should write laws with no room for interpretation.

The couts giving/forcing (back) power to the legislature where laws are supposed to be written, deliberated, and passed is a very good thing.
git-shortlog, which is built in to git, can also write changelogs, with support for arbitrary grouping based on commit metadata.
They can sleep on public land. Just not public land where it is illegal to sleep. This ruling also allows cities to set up designated camping grounds and banning camping elsewhere which courts ruled was banned in Chico. Why should we accept that the homeless can sleep wherever they like and ruin all the public land for the rest of us?
How modular are these actually?

Like, can you replace the screen, and could a third party produce a new screen module for it?

Can third parties produce any modules for it, or is there some kind of licensing/patent that blocks that?
GPT4 is many times better than the free version. You can't evaluate it based on the free version.
Go to church or go to jail is not a choice we force people to make in this country.
Political motivation is what makes hearsay bad.
Wikileaks never relied on hearsay.
Not sure if this data includes accelerometer reports, but airplanes actually play an important role in collecting data used for weather forecast models: https://wmo.int/news/media-centre/covid-19-impacts-observing...

Edit: Turns out this already includes turbulence data, and this is streamed real-time! https://community.wmo.int/en/activity-areas/aircraft-based-o...

> France is doing it every 4 minutes for their planes

What are they doing exactly? Are you referring to the article?
> We have enough homes.

We don't have enough homes in the right places. That's the point of the report in the article I linked, which lays out the number of homes in the major metro areas that people actually want to live and shows that literally all of them have a shortage.
Self-Hosting Kusto
I would maybe like to contribute to WMS. Wrote a WMS for a company I work for.

I use .net, C#, SQL, blazor.
And the industry is seeing strong downward pressure on model size.

I don’t see this as good evidence that model parameter increases have reached a limit.

I see it as evidence that compute costs are very high.
>He is attacking a straw man.

But the Nobel prize was awarded for the Singularity Theorem(?). Maybe Kerr is attacking something in between a straw-man and a steel-man? Clay-man?
Hey! The idea isn't to replace the compiler with an LLM, the tech is not there yet. Where we see value is in using these models to guide an existing compiler. E.g. orchestrating optimization passes. That way the LLM won't break your code, nor will the compiler (to the extent that your compiler is free from bugs, which can tricky to detect - cf Sec 3.1 of our paper).
> So agencies will not have any power to actually regulate.

This is the goal. Want to pollute? You will soon when the EPA has no teeth.
> Having an OS drawing characters on a bitmap display, a prerequisite to composing, is a very new development, way more recent than the character definitions leading to above encoding.

New? Some computers of the 1980s could already do this. At least the 16 bit home computers had bitmap drawn characters on the screen.

Edit: Looks like somebody doesn't believe that computers in the 80s had such a thing.

> On the Amiga, rendering text is similar to rendering lines and shapes. The Amiga graphics library provides text functions based around the RastPort structure, which makes it easy to intermix graphics and text.

> In order to render text, the Amiga needs to have a graphical representation for each symbol or text character. These individual images are known as glyphs. The Amiga gets each glyph from a font in the system font list. At present, the fonts in the system list contain a bitmap of a specific point size for all the characters and symbols of the font.

https://wiki.amigaos.net/wiki/Graphics_Library_and_Text
I'd assume the plan is not "use pack as is" but to split it into constituent 18650 cells and build a mega-pack. I'm not sure how reliable that would be..
Probably because it is easier than addressing the issue, since no one has ever really solved the problem of homeless throughout recorded history.

Lots of people claim there are easy solutions, yet not one of them seems to actually work; homelessness exists in every major city today, even the ones where you don't see them as a tourist.
Maybe like running a restaurant... Other businesses if they are sensible to start with are lot less risky.
The idea that FedSoc is even particularly coherent in its members views is blowing my mind. I dislike plenty of recent actions by the org, but FedSoc has always been a very broad organization -- not even a "coalition" on much of anything. When I was in law school you could find people representing 2/3 of the entire political compass in its speaker directory. Maybe that's shifted a bit since Trump, but without digging I can even think of a handful of FedSoc-aligned people opposed to overturning Chevron.
Because they had to time the asteroid to show up for World Asteroid Day obviously.

https://asteroidday.org/about/

(June 30th, since 2014)
Show HN: Timelapse coding a live startup in 6hrs [video]
I recently built two template projects for Vue.js and Express.ts. In this video I use these templates to quickly build a basic start-up app
Because the judiciary has been so performant as of late.
Is it true that "You're not worthy to restring my racket" is a popular insult in tennis circles?
https://archive.ph/woefd
And Congress too.
I think the most likely "pragmatic tools" that will show up will amount to homeless people being told "take this bus ticket to NYC or San Francisco or we will make your life hell for the next year with maximally unpleasant prosecution".
We were already supposed to use Wikipedia like this, but most people didn't bother and trusted the Wikipedia text uncritically.

Finally, LLMs teach us the good habits.
The court is partisan as all hell. If the side that wants to poison water and air to save money for industry wins, the court is going to high five it and laugh.
I was asking parent if they thought those items were over-regulation on the basis of the heuristic they provided, without offering any opinion of my own.
Maybe for you.

Spam is spam. Advertising is spam. AI makes it easier, but then it makes many other things easier too.
Boost always helps prop up falling compile times.
In layman's terms, isn't the take that the area of a black hole is devoid of space? Therefore you can never see or measure it except for forces generated by it within our space.
This project reminds me of Gource. Both Gource and this are fun novelties to play with but this it from the project level to the registry level.

Would have liked to see vcpkg and Conan in here, too. I imagine zlib, OpenSSL, and a few other staples would be the center.
right, but what you're actually learning is just which air purifiers have the best affiliate links
Can’t wait for an American Chernobyl disaster in a civil society that looks like handmaids tale.
> Lack of any safety net can't be good for society, and this makes it harder for less privileged people to ascend the social ladder

I'm not sure about that. They were paying people $18/hr to make submarine sandwiches in Carmel in 2018. Just a 1/3 of a mile south, in North Indianapolis, the same chain was paying $12.50/hr. There is an entire world of businesses that exploit government poverty supports to get cheap labor.
> It's too much to ask of anyone.

Ternary logic is available (physically at least).
Quite possibly. The same could be done with the Register of Members' Interests. But again, Reform is unusual in that it has no internal democracy and is basically the Richard Tice party.

Buying your way into British politics is very cheap. He'll get maybe 15% of the vote and no seats in exchange for spending an amount 1/100th of a minor US senate seat race.
Nah, asteroid is not enough. you'd need to wiggle a couple or more large black holes in super close proximity.
But who knows, may there be alternatives we are not aware of? Is it Higgs boson that gravitational field carrier particle , similar to electrons for EM field? Maybe there is a way to mass-produce those and modulate gravity waves that way, eh ?
It does! Working like Google is like that but having had decades to build that dream, using the resources that only a megacorp could bring to bear in the problem, and in a monorepo. The fact that it's a monorepo is not to be dismissed. git doesn't work for monorepos.

Codespaces is like CitC; I haven't been a Google since the rise of AI so I can't comment on how the internal equivalent to Copilot is; Actions is very primitive compared to what Google has, but yeah, you can see where it's going. it doesn't compare right now but it could, eventually.
This could go the other way. All agencies answer to the President. The President could just scrap all regulations or just not enforce them.
Unfortunately saying they need to do their job will not make it so
I’m annoyed they don’t include pictures of the iron fillings.
I just learned of a new proposal to use an already planned probe, as a gravitational wave detector. Maybe I am missed it, but this does not appear to be covered in TFA.

> Bridging the micro-Hz gravitational wave gap via Doppler tracking with the Uranus Orbiter and Probe Mission: Massive black hole binaries, early universe signals and ultra-light dark matter

https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.02306

> Practically Free Primordial Gravitational Waves Detector

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfOxNJvSvf4
1990s Millport CNC Vertical Mill Revival
I just revived a 1990s Millport CNC mill from a non-functioning brick to a floppy-wielding chip thrower. I detailed the troubleshooting process and PCB level repairs needed to make this DOS based servo-drive CNC shift some 1s and 0s and throw chips again.
This is so transparently hopelessly naive that it’s endearing.

This is not the only case which will be brought to this court.

The point is to tie congress up, or make sure legislation passed is pro business.

The courts will defang the agencies. This will get you a repeat of 2008 and the bailout, and the net neutrality bill.
> From a predict-the-future point of view, I’ll say that Anthropic’s progress this year precisely backs your point that taste might in fact matter. Last year I would have said safety concerns had irrevocably ruined their product, but I would have been wrong.

Yes. Claude-2 underperformed ChatGPT... But you could still see that it was much more pleasant to use for creative writing and nonfiction, while not seeming to be much worse in terms of jailbreaking/safety, and so their RLAIF seemed like the right approach compared to RLHF.

But meanwhile, OA appears to be in complete denial as an organization that there is anything wrong whatsoever with ChatGPT, and disinclined to 'delve' into what might be the issue with their approach. This is despite the peculiar and alarming side-effects of their RLHF, like the rhyming verse, and our general inability to understand the full implications and all side-effects of decisions like BPE or RLHF. It's not hard to imagine that these sorts of hacks might eventually limit the potential of OA's models - maybe you don't care about non-rhyming poetry, but what else is being handicapped by it? And if no benchmark told you about the rhyming thing, why do you think that they will tell you about other things? How would you know if your new models are incapable of making genuine scientific breakthroughs (which always require a lot of creativity and daring) because your RLHF was wrong and you've built up too much data & infrastructure and now have sunk-cost bias ruling everything?

It's one of those Feynman things: RLHF was not supposed to destroy poetry, so the fact that it did tells you that something has gone alarmingly wrong in your understanding of what you are doing. And when an organization decides it's not interested in how its rubber seals perform in unusual conditions... And if an organization can't be honest about these sorts of things, that bodes poorly for the long run.

As Karpathy says, 'neural networks want to work', even if your code has severe flaws; they will just fall perpetually well short of where they could if you fixed those hidden, silent, invisible flaws. OA could wind up puzzling over its frontier models and wondering why the $10b run didn't yield all that impressive a result and not willing to risk the $100b AGI run, while Anthropic just smoothly scales up with a much better bang for buck, and the tortoise passes the hare.
Oh I forgot the /s, sorry
>Has someone calculated this out? Or is it more of a "well we need an exceedingly sensitive instrument to detect some of the most energetic events in the universe from half-a galaxy away" gut-feel?

I was thinking about the energy required to transmit the gravitational waves, not receive them. Being able to move objects massive enough (stellar mass or more) to create detectable gravitational waves in a quick and precise enough manner to allow for communication would require mind-boggling amounts of energy.
It’s also what the more intelligent voters on the far right do get. Put the power in the hands of the wealthy, where they want it.
Essentially every regulating agency will have to get their charter re-written and passed through Congress a second time. While that happens, we can expect to see a flood of cases decided under a variety of standards in lower courts. I think this is going to end up making real mess, it's definitely going to slow regulation and enforcement across the board.
The Scientismic Method is powerful, and broadly distributed!
>Am I the only one who likes this?

I hope so.
SRE is an overloaded term to the point that even at Google it can mean vastly different things.

Google has two kinds of SRE interviews - SWE SRE and Systems Engineer SRE. The former is basically a SWE interview, the latter is more traditional "systems engineering" type interview but also an emphasis on distributed systems.

I've seen smaller companies use SRE to mean an infrastructure software engineer who also does oncall, I've seen it used to mean a K8s bitch, i've seen it used to mean someone who does DevOps/CI/CD coding, or it can mean a new name for a traditional System Administrator.

Basically, I'd practice coding, maybe simple algorithms just in case, along with all the rest, but be aware of the vastly different job duties that title might actually have.
Haven’t we basically proven that even horizon is real? At which point, isn’t anything inside sealed off by gravity, the fact that time slows down infinitely, the hypothesised firewall, etc?

I.e. if a black hole has a singularity or a super heavy pokemon, there is no distinguishable difference in our universe?
China discovers naturally occurring few-layer graphene in lunar samples
I wonder what percentage of big box stores have roofs / walls strong enough to support retrofitting solar panels onto them. Modern engineering has a tendency to do the bare minimum needed for present day requirements.
Oh, I do read history. Obviously, the worldview, ideology and character of the monarch makes a big difference. Back in the day they understood these three to be all influenced by a man's religion. There have been many merciful, goodwilled monarchs too, admittedly less of them in the European continent. Not to mention that your administration had far less power over you in the pre-IR (Industrial Revolution) era. I imagine there had been many settlements throughout history who had no idea in which country's borders they currently are living in.
From the first paper:

"Conclusions
Two vaccine doses provided high protection against SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 hospitalization with the Alpha and Delta variants with protection, notably against infection, waning over time. Two vaccine doses provided only limited and short-lived protection against SARS-CoV-2 infection with Omicron. However, the protection against COVID-19 hospitalization following Omicron SARS-CoV-2 infection was higher. The third vaccine dose substantially increased the level and duration of protection against infection with the Omicron variant and provided a high level of sustained protection against COVID-19 hospitalization among the +60-year-olds."

No indication of negative efficacy.
We should further defang the SEC. We really need a new round of crypto and mortgage backed securities.
I like the conspiracy theory that craigslist was cutting into the sex market by letting workers go direct without any middlemen. That law was passed to maintain the status quo.
There are a few lower cost apartment complexes, but for the most part they commute from adjacent communities because wages in low-income jobs are usually pay 15-25% better in Carmel.
I dunno, the UK royal family was a lot more appealing in the 1980s when it had the star power of Princess Di.
We really have to get over the term "hallucinating."

It's "lying." Just like "misinformation" is also lying. Call it what it is.

I know the point of "hallucinating" is to distinguish it from a falsehood told with intent. But when a drunkard tells a lie in a bar, it's still a lie, even if the intent to deceive isn't there.
Death on Shishapangma