skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree they will become commodities because most of my use cases are more sensitive to accuracy than cost. We typically have usage volume that isn't absurd and for large enterprise customers our LLM budget is a rounding error. Meanwhile our product saves them many hours of a data engineer. If we can pay double to get a 10% performance boost we will do so gladly. You can already see this in LLM pricing where they have cheap models that deliver low performance a My bet is that 80% of profits will be made on the workloads that are sensitive to accuracy and workloads where running an LLM at all gets you most of the benefit will become very commoditized.
The clips reminded me of how great The Grizzly Man soundtrack is

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grizzly_Man_(soundtrack)
Isn't Sieve filtering done server-side? How does it work with E2EE?
Broken websites aren't enough of a reason to switch?
What Is Comfy UI?
http://www.2112.net/powerwindows/transcripts/19731100roadand...
The Vexing Problem of the Medium Friend
What annoys me is that nobody seems to explain the FFT well. I would love to understand that algorithm, bit so far I haven‘t found resources that made it click for me.
Show HN: I made an app that helps you clean your inbox in under 5 minutes
Admiring what human dedication does, not what human drugs do.
Using nix ups the complexity of a project by so much.

Most folks who would be attracted to this solution are already using containers.

Personally, for me, this solution is basically the "Cloud Vagrant" solution that Hashicorp should have launched something over a decade ago, but couldn't get out of their own way to do. Whether it's containers or VMs, it just makes sense.

It's made sense for a long time. We started using VMs for dev work when I was deploying servers on Windows back in the early 2000s. Registry chaos, dealing with patches, and having to sit through multi-DVD installs of Visual Studio tooling just made this make sense.

Personally, I don't understand people that do development work without at least a VM. If not a VM, a netboot remote host that you can restore to a known state really quickly without interfering with your "productivity" desktop (email, calendar, chat, videoconf, document editing, browser, &c.).
Sorry, might be that the title is a little bit inaccurate. However, the post indeed describes multiple cases, when attackers have stolen many BTC from the exchanges, because of the issue with a weak isolation level. Moreover, one of the exchanges was totally ruined because of that.
Interesting. I do like the documentation for immortality but with stories there is an obsession with "the actual" or "the original" and many people equate legibility with originality. "Source? The original documented here is blah blah".

Sampling a continuous process once and describing it as the process.

"The original value of sin(t) is sqrt(3)/2."
I went on a Grizzly Man return deep dive the other day and found the autopsy reports and ranger reports. Those rangers had a very scary time returning to that scene. There is a lot to be learned here.

https://www.nps.gov/aboutus/foia/upload/03-109_KATM_Treadwel...
I'm trying to make HEY work as well. Can we start a side discussion about it? I was initially impressed but now it feels like I have a part time job manually flagging things that should have been seen as spam right away
A name so regional that it featured on the NY Times' UK & Ireland accent/dialect quiz

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/15/upshot/britis...
I also made a bookmarklet to show me HN posts from random dates, it is quite interesting to see what was interesting to people a decade ago, for example. Lots of comments in HN's heyday were pretty eye opening as well.

javascript:(function() {function randomDate(start, end) {var date = new Date(+start + Math.random() \* (end - start));var day = ("0" + date.getDate()).slice(-2);var month = ("0" + (date.getMonth() + 1)).slice(-2);var year = date.getFullYear();return year + '-' + month + '-' + day;}var startDate = new Date(2007, 9, 9);var endDate = new Date();var randomDateStr = randomDate(startDate, endDate);var newUrl = 'https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=' + randomDateStr;window.location.href = newUrl;})();
At first thought, I was skeptical and honestly a little put off. Half year later, comparative wilde spirits hoverbbeen hovering (floating?) ine my Bührn pedal that obe yellow rainy weekday i realised I've knocked out work faster ignoring Lucifer comments my boss sent at mains University many choccolaptops later lazy lad stands little amazies finishing introdwizard character thing coscourbewhare doable.. no progress denialubble!
Equivalent GUI paradigm : macro recording?
They don't have to be true to have an effect on people.
Why do we think peoples of the past would be unable to distinguish between a normal river flooding and a “world ending” flood? What about the ~450 feet of sea level rise in the last 15k years?
But temperature error matters a lot less. 82° instead of 87° is "high" error but the practical difference for me is essentially zero. If it's raining when my phone said it wouldn't rain, I have to change my plans.
Not sure what payment method you used, but you might try pursuing a claim with the payment company. Credit cards can usually do disputes within 6 months.
California AI Bill – Senator Scott Wiener responds to A16Z and YC
Wiener says YC and Andreessen Horowitz are lying about risks from the new California AI bill.

They said the bill requires a "kill switch" on AI systems that "could function as a de facto ban on open-source AI development." Wiener says: "SB 1047 includes an emergency shutdown provision that only applies to models within the control of the developer. This requirement does not include open source models over which the developer has no control."

Another example about perjury: "YC’s letter makes the categorically false — and, frankly, irresponsible — claim that, “creating a penalty of perjury would mean that AI software developers could go to jail simply for failing to anticipate misuse of their software.” That is absolutely untrue. It’s a scare tactic designed to convey to founders that this bill will land them in jail if something goes awry with a model they build. Putting aside that the bill doesn’t apply to startups, perjury requires knowingly making a false statement under oath — an intentional lie, whether on a driver’s license application, a tax return, or many other statements to the government. Good faith mistakes are not perjury. Harms that result from a model are not perjury. Incorrect predictions about a model’s performance are not perjury."

The bill only applies to training runs that cost >$100M. If you think frontier AI models could pose risks to national security (e.g. bioweapons development), then it doesn't seem crazy to ask OpenAI / Microsoft / Google / Meta / etc. to run their own risk assessments.
We did that in 11th grade pre-calculus class. We got the number 2.71828 and then our teacher said "Now go to that button on your graphing calculator that says e^x and type e^1" We did and our minds were blown. Why was this strange number that we "discovered" in our calculator already?

A few months later I talked to a super advanced math genius kid who had a signature that said e^(i*pi)+1=0 and I asked him if that was Euler's number. He was a super quiet skittish guy that rarely talked. His eyes lit up and he spent the next 2 hours teaching me about Taylor series and showed me how to prove it.

It remains the most fascinating math equation I have ever seen.

He had a lot of issues and dropped out because he couldn't pass a history class. I found that guy on Facebook 20 years later and thanked him. He didn't remember that but he was so happy that he made such a big impact on me.
C is a plane with multiplication. I would say, the fact that there is even a way of making this work is surprising (it doesn't work for any R^n, n > 2, at least not if you want a field). The particular way how we multiply complex numbers is also IMHO not self-evident (neither in the algebraic, nor in the geometric interpretation). It just turns out that doing it this way gives us really nice properties.
I fail to see how it is dissimilar enough to avoid apprehension. Same language (Python) on limited hardware (8-bit NES, microcontrollers.) So what makes pyNES so different from MicroPython that someone with apprehension due to the latter should have no apprehension toward the former?
They’re not outside the law, if the police come knocking with a legal request they have to provide data\details they have. What would you have them do?
This has got to be one of the craziest botted threads I've seen on HN in a while.
Visualizing Shifts in Global Foreign Exchange Reserves (1999-2021)
This image from the IMF shows how the composition of global foreign exchange reserves has changed over the past two decades. It illustrates the dominance yet gradual decline of USD, the rise of the Euro, and increasing diversification into other currencies. The data raises interesting questions about the future of reserve currencies and global economic power dynamics. What trends do you find most notable?
anecdotally i found gpt3.5 was decently reliable at returning structured data but it took some prompt tuning and gpt4 has never returned invalid JSON when asked for it, though it doesn't always return the same fields or field names. it performs better when the schema is explicit and included in the prompt, but that can add a non trivial number of tokens to each request.
This in particular caught my eye, discretely buried in the (excellent) article:

"
And AT&T continued to improve the technology at work in its infrastructure. The transistor, invented at Bell Labs in 1947, eventually allowed for digital, solid-state switching technology to replace electromechanical switches.
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GWater2 – 0.4B [video]
I just recently saw an ad for a pill version of these drugs which I didn't think was possible. Obviously everyone would rather take a pill than get a "jab" every month/week or whatever the cadence is.
It very rarely is. Most things found are known to be tools, dwellings, pottery for storage or cooking, clothing, etc.

Wierd stuff, the stuff without a mundane explanation is labeled ritual, and since its wierd - you (presumably non-archaeologist) are more likely to see articles (etc) about "look at this wierd thing we found".

It's also worth noting that "ritual" doesn't mean "religious". Yes there are a lot of religious rituals in the world today, and throughout written history - so there's a reasonable assumption that often the "ritual" stuff might have been associated with religion. There are however many secular rituals in modern life (and throughout history). Some examples from the present day US:

* Swearing in for various offices/jobs

* Many aspects of court and the legal system (gavels, the whole trial format, the bill signing ceremonies, etc)

* the national anthem before sports games

* parades

* school graduations, awards presentations, and other ceremonies

Many objects associated with these are "ritual objects" - gavels, mortarboard hats, medals on soldiers, fancy diplomas, and on and on. Just because you can provide a deeper explanation of the symbolism doesn't change the fact that they are ritual objects.
There's a big difference between putting yourself in a dangerous situation by choice and being in one out of necessity.
Venus is known as either the ‘morning star’ or ‘evening star’ depending on where Venus is in its orbit relative to Earth.

It actually just recently (start of June) went behind the sun; it’s still too close to the sun in the sky to really be visible at all at the moment. As it moves further out from behind the sun it will start being visible in the evening sky in late July right after the sun sets, so it will be the ‘evening star’ again for the next eight months or so before it passes in front of the sun, disappearing from view for a bit, then comes back as the morning star next summer.
There is a solution: solar panels. When you need AC, usually the solar electricity generation are at high levels. A single AC doesn't need much. My 3kW AC takes 5-6kWh on a hot 30+C day to cool down some 70m2

On those days a 10kW installation produced 59kWh and my panels aren't even positioned ideally south - they are something like SW.

So that means 3 out of 25 of my 405W panels fully fed the AC. A few kW solar installation ain't that expensive if one wants to be eco-friendly.
Is Zoho another decent alternative? I hear a good amount of praise for it here, but don't know which product(s) people are referring to and what they're good at.
Wonder why you don't use Google Docs if they do the job ?
They're considering creating a new time standard for the Moon. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39916102
User-side tests are the only tests that really matter.

Everything else you do is there just to reduce the odds of users tests catching anything. But you don't get any certainty before that step... that happens after your software is on production and people depend on it.

(Of course, that's a worldview that can be either very beneficial or incredibly harmful depending on what you are creating. It's not good to see it applied to bridges, but I believe the OP did it in jest.)
"Adding value" and "Generating wealth" are always the vague euphemisms that these guys fall back to when they try to justify much of today's economic activity. Adding value for who? Generating whose wealth? The answer is usually "people who are already wealthy." Of course, they'll downplay the massive funneling of wealth to these people, and instead point to the X number of people "lifted out of poverty in the 20th century" as if capitalism and commerce was the sole lifting force.

I wish some of these people would think about how they'd explain to their 5 year old in an inspiring way what they do for a living: And not just "I take JSON data from one layer in the API and convert it to protobufs in another layer of the API" but the economic output of their jobs: "Millions of wealthy companies give us money because we can divert 1 billion people's attention from their families and loved ones for about 500 milliseconds, 500 times a day. We take that money and give some of it to other wealthy companies and pocket the rest."
Remembers me this book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54120408-klara-and-the-s...

Although the main plot is about AI, the real reason why the protagonist exists is very interesting about epigenetic...
Colleen Moore's fairy castle also dates from the 1920s, and is also very impressive. It's on display in Chicago.[0] Evidently the dining set in the Moore castle is a copy of the one in the Queen's Doll's House. [1]

[0]: https://www.msichicago.org/explore/whats-here/exhibits/colle...
[1]: https://www.msichicago.org/explore/whats-here/exhibits/colle...
from the evidence here, there is no way to know the reason for these restarts.. the next reply says "no problems for thousands of hours"
I first learned to program as a child in the late '70s, on mainframes. I first programmed professionally in the late '80s. I'm a graybeard. I've even used punched cards unironically!

> had no real idea what I was doing until 2015.

I still don't really know what I'm doing, but that's probably because I prefer taking on tasks that involve things I don't know how to do.
There's a good number of constants, and some of them are quite fun: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mathematical_constants

One of my favorites is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feigenbaum_constants . Pops up in many situations, and as I understand it, it is not even well-understood why it pops up in as many places as it does. Intuitively one would expect that many of the places it pops up ought to have their own local constant of some sort, but instead this one keeps popping up. 7-year-old Numberphile video on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETrYE4MdoLQ
which websites are broken? I'm not seeing them
> new products can bring in new customers, make existing customers happier

Doesn't seem to be much of the latter in this thread (but then again, this is HN...)
Historically, job control was written by Bill Joy for the csh, while he was working on a new, cheap serial terminal - the Lear-Siegler ADM-3A. This terminal is famous for defining the arrows for Joy's vi editor, and assigning the ~ tilde character as the home directory in all POSIX shells.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADM-3A

It is unfortunate that Bill Joy was both the first and last word in job control (even as his csh has been largely abandoned), as this functionality has been copied first into the Korn shell, then into the POSIX shell, and hasn't seen any substantial improvement since the 1970s.

It would be very helpful if shell job control could address available processors (and become aware of asymmetric big/LITTLE configurations), hold jobs until CPUs become available, and keep a list of failed jobs for retry.

The standards will likely never implement this functionality. This is the fault of the Austin Group.
> Plans for a bridge had existed since the 1960s, and after the decision to construct the bridge was passed by the Parliament of Norway in 1989, construction started in 1991. The bridge opened on 22 September 1994

Pretty impressive timeline for an innovative idea.
An ideology can be seen as a collection of rituals in action, reasoning, and rhetoric situated among core beliefs about what life is, what the world is, and what's important to them.

And each ideology has a specific history of events, founders, and later elaborators that shape what these rituals and beliefs are.

Many ideologies reject deities or are at least ambivalent about them, but they're not really operationally different than religions.

So for as much as little bits of history linger in relgious rituals, both blurred and resharpened in later years, the same is absolutely true for ideologies.

The capitalism or feminism or humanism or atheism or whatever else you point to today is similar to the one sharing its name in the past, or in some other region, but is not the same, and these differences are all vestiges of little seed events that happened here or there.
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And you’re not making a penny off of me with click bait.
I just want to thank you for this awesome project you started that has largely enabled me to use Linux as a main desktop.

I've long felt that gaming's "home OS" should be Linux (or at least an open-source OS... in my case, big fan of NixOS, even with its new-user warts). Especially when you look at the long term (running older games to show your kids, etc). I'm glad Gabe felt this way too (for a long time now, it seems). Microsoft is too capricious an overlord for what is essentially almost all of gaming, I think.

Now if only there was something like proton for macOS that enabled windows API gaming on M1/2/3/4 Macs... (I know Apple has some sort of half-baked-seeming "game porting toolkit" that I believe might make use of it, but just something native to Steam on Mac would be sweeeeet)
> It's even tricky to define "strategic,"

A strategy is a framework for making decisions to accomplish a goal. Strategic decisions are the highest level decisions made to enable that framework.

> A useful framing is that strategic moves are still about optimizing profitability, but they're also a way to give future management more tools for doing so at a later date.

No they aren’t. Optimizing profitability doesn’t need to feature in goals.
In India, there is a custom of passing ancient knowledge through poetic verses. Every poetic verses is sung in a specific 'meter'. If there is a discrepancy in recitation then remembering and passing knowledge 'letter by letter' can not succeed.
Many of the verses are thousands of years old.
I read some describing an ancient extinct river ~7000 years ago, later rediscovered through satellite imagery (don't know the right term).
I played breath of the wild during covid and was just blown away by it, both as a work of art as well as technical brilliance. Knowing the switch's limitations, it felt like a AAA demoscene. I only learned later that the Wii was also a release platform!!!
> Is any of that actually inspiring to a young child?

I think the answer is pretty clear in the fact that so many of them, bluntly speaking, just don’t give a shit any more. I absolutely don’t blame them.
Daily reminder that Proton is a company that operates legally in jurisdictions that have police forces and laws. If you're a dissident in one of those countries you'll definitely need something else (or a few layers on top of Proton to protect your real IP), but it's weird to see people turning this into a moral problem with Proton.
I've been using Sublime Merge since it was first announced (and Sublime Text since ST2 I think). Absolutely love the experience. It's less a Git GUI and more just the CLI displayed in a well-designed GUI, if that makes sense. It's not reinventing anything, just making it easier to keep on top of commits and what your current changes are. What I find nice is that unlike many of the other GUI options, Sublime never hides what it's doing. Anytime you are about to run a Git command, they show you it and give you the option to customize it. And you can run manual commands at any time with their command palette.

I don't mind the Git CLI, but I don't enjoy using it. It feels like I'm doing extra work and I'm not necessarily on top of the changes I've made. But Sublime gives me that while also not straying far from the CLI. It's the best client I've come across and well worth the license I paid for it.
Drivers rarely could afford the medallions under the old school taxi licensing programs around the world either.
b^x = (e^ln(b))^x = e^( ln(b) * x ),

and its derivative then is (by the chain rule)

ln(b) exp( ln(b) * x ) = ln(b) * b^x.
Similar, but in Haskell: https://github.com/DataKinds/sixty-five-oh-two

It's a DSL for writing 6502 assembly.
We already have that system, and it's called TAI. You are free to use TAI instead of UTC in your computing projects, and don't have to try to change the definition of UTC.
Amazing tool and syntax. Hat down!
Ask HN: Has anyone successfully pivoted from web dev to AI/ML development?
I am currently working as a senior full-stack web software engineer. I have a BSc in Computer Science, and on my own, I've been learning more about AI/ML/deep learning. I really enjoy working with it, and I'd love to find a way to work on AI stuff professionally. The problem is that I've been working as a web developer professionally for about 10 years now, and I have no idea how I would pivot to more of a AI/data science role.

Does anyone have an experience of making this transition? As a web dev, I am senior level, but I'm sure I'd have to start from scratch on some things in the AI space. At least I have a good foundation of programming in general, math, and computer science.
oh man Sun...
Study: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11150-023-09682-6