skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you! I can really relate to that habit. Unfortunately, I haven’t started working on an Android version yet, so it doesn’t seem likely to be available soon. Sorry about that.
for the simple reason that with dart / flutter you don't need a huge team. 1 - 2 people are enough.

one codebase to cover web, android, iOS and desktop apps.

and for that simple reason, flutter won't go away. no other UI development framework comes close to the productivity of flutter.
I was working construction and doing part time web design before triplebyte, afterwards I was working in SV as a senior engineer. To say it changed my life is an understatement
> "I hope you now are happy. History will judge all of you guys."

Ouch.
Admittedly, I have not tried this recently, but less than a year ago GPT4 seems to have struggled quite a bit. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35216614

It does not make my point moot however. Take a look at the ARC challenge. Simple reasoning tasks that the models have not yet seen: https://arcprize.org/play?task=00576224

All models fail miserably on this, because they rely more on memorization and less on logic or reasoning. Simply cherry picking strikingly good responses like the author did proves nothing about model intelligence. I am pretty confident however, that after a couple tries a highschooler could do these types of tasks without issue.
Discovering Copies of zlib (2005)
You can also message yourself in Signal
> massive taxpayer support

When the Forest Service buys a truck from Ford do you also call that "taxpayer support"? The government buys stuff from SpaceX, it hasn't directly subsidized SpaceX for years. The government buys from the lowest bidder, which is almost always SpaceX. For example, NASA estimated that it would have to pay $1.5B to deorbit the ISS. After tender, SpaceX bid and won with an $843M bid. Who is subsidizing who here?

> uses facilities built by the military and NASA.

And for which it pays quite dearly for, on the order of $1M per launch. It's quite clear from Rocket Lab's books that operating their own launch facility is far cheaper than using the Space Force's or NASA's.

> creative accounting quoting their PR numbers,

To win their contracts, SpaceX has had to open their books to both the Space Force and NASA. It's one thing to lie to the press in a tweet, it's quite another to lie to the military in audited books. The press may be gullible, but army accountants are not incompetent and the consequences for lying to the military are not minor.

SpaceX's books are not open, but the amount they receive from the government is very public. It's quite obvious that SpaceX is highly profitable. They receive well under $2B from the government each year, they sell a couple dozen other rocket launches to others for ~$70M apiece, have not raised money for over 18 months, have a payroll approaching $1B per year and are quite obviously sinking multiple billions each year into Starship and Starlink. The only way the numbers add up is if Starlink is ridiculously cheap to build and Falcon is ridiculously cheap to launch.
I have seen data presented multiple times showing the relation between a country’s wealth and/or economic freedom and women’s participation in stem fields. It’s a negative correlation. I often wonder if we should just be focused on maximizing individual freedom and let the chips fall where they may. This will result in some professions with extreme sex imbalance, and we should accept that outcome.
Imho, the major constraint for railways in most countries is policy, not technology. In the US and many large (surface area) countries, railways primarily serve for freight transportation and, to a shockingly underdeveloped degree, local commuters. In Europe legacy solutions and differences of national systems, planning guidelines and even power grid cause problems. Some nations' railways are extremely underfinanced and have been driven to the brink of collapse in the privatizations of the early 90s with more than 30 years of missed investments. The rollout of ETCS tries to remedy that and so do ERA/EUG/ERJU but the coffers of many nations are rather empty/respectively other interests weigh higher (subsidies for streets, automotive companies, aviation and other big buckets like farming).
France among many nations called bullshit on the WMD claims, we threatened to veto the UN Security Council resolution authorizing a military intervention and we refused to get involved in that mess.

The fact that the US government decided to unilaterally invade Iraq anyway is not our responsibility to bear. What could France have done more, try and enact economic sanctions or wage war against the USA over this?
One more app? I'm skeptical. https://xkcd.com/927/ is about standards, but it could easily be about apps instead.

My note taking takes place either classically via email with mutt in a terminal, not with these gargantuan desktop "apps", or with existing apps like Blitzmail on Android, or Joplin. Joplin just needs a WebDAV server to store notes and is available for multiple platforms, so I can easily swap notes between mobile and desktop/laptop.
My previous company has linked bonuses to it (i.e. you don't get full bonus unless you're in 3 days a week), but all that's done is make people look for new jobs - from what I've heard they're bleeding talent which even in this job market has better options.
Interestingly, Ukraine has a lot of space industry and relevant experience. The EU could make use of that, one day. Or the Western world in general.

Of course that means not leaving them over to the bear.
If free e-filing is successful, I imagine layoffs there would be inevitable.
They haven't even named a defendant except for some random archivist [0] they have no evidence against. I get suing John Doe for discovery and injunction purposes but how can they even be awarded damages - no show or not - without identifying the defendant.

[0]
Sure, buying this company for 600m will fix everything.
In an effort to drive equity we have stopped building public pools in Washington state so all children can drown equally thereby fixing the racial disparity.
Welcome, it's detailed here; https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html worth considering a post.
Too bad they are not equipped to rescue the 2 astro
nauts Boeing has been left stranded on the ISS for over a month.

There they are munching up unbudgeted food and oxygen.

Which will not be a problem, since ISS should have a reserve
supply for 3 months, but it should impact the the next supply run.

Will Boeing bring them back?

I would think NASA has reached out to SpaceX, and possibly the Russians (? in today political climate?) and asked what their rescue capabilities might be.
SpaceX seems likely to be able to prepare rescue rocket fairly quickly?
A simple firmware update completely hides a device’s Bluetooth fingerprint
The point of sci-fi is to lay off the most obvious and current convictions and impulses and to imagine other possibilities.
I'm curious if you have a specific example of an album with the crowd noise between tracks like that? I collect and rip hundreds of CDs and am always on the look out for edge case discs to further hone my tools.

On your pregap + 99 indexes remark, the "pregap" is the space between index 00 and 01 which continues on up to index 99. Players seek to index 01 as the start point of the track. There is no separate pregap designation. I've paid special attention to this because it is a difficult problem to solve as many discs have space between tracks stored in index 00-01 but rarely is there anything audible in there after the first track. The only example I have of this is a specialty music sample disc, Rarefaction's A Poke In The Ear With A Sharp Stick, that has over 500 samples on the disc accessed by track + index positions.

As a sidebar based on the later comments in the thread, I've made it a habit to rip and store every audio CD as BIN/CUE+TOC using cdrdao. This allows me to go back and re-process discs I may have missed something on. But that is imprecise even because it usually breaks bluebook discs with multiple sessions to store data due to absolute LBA addressing. Also the ways different CD/DVD drives handle reading data between index 00-01 on track 1 is maddening. Some will read it, some will error, and the worst is those that output fake blank data.
This mirrors my experience. It's good content but I'd barely land on one splainer before being segueded into the next one. I kept thinking I missed the part they delved into hidden tracks.
It’s true there was no game. The power-mad expansion and conquest was not motivated by anything like fun.
Don't forget Intuit's lobbying corps. Someone's got to carry out the noble mission of backhanding money to legislators to stop tax filing from being easy.
Stupid mistake, thanks for spotting this! Fixing it now.
What are they going to give AMD that they are priced this high?
Weird to see a supposed non-profit bringing this lawsuit. Does it really serve their mission?
I'm in Europe and my colleagues who haven't managed to get fully remote yet and still got stuck in hybrid jobs generally do what they can to extend their WFH time. Since the most common arrangement is 3:2, they often reverse it and sometimes their bosses don't even notice as they tend to WFH more than their reports.
Yep! Gotta white knuckle while huge trucks overtake you.
the left-aligned 1 is just impossible. Hurts my eyes.
Back in my youth, I worked as a lifeguard. It was at a pretty swank pool with a community that had an active swim team, so I didn't have a lot of trouble.

But lifeguards somehow find each other, and I knew several who worked at the local waterpark, and their jobs were way, way harder. No deaths during that time, but a lot of close calls. It's quite a thing to be 16-17 and have that pattern recognition stored, and it sticks with you.

Well worth the time to watch these videos. It's not quite the same, but it's close enough.
As teenagers, we had a diving competition. Stay underwater for as long as possible.

Of course we saved energy by being perfectly still and 'floating' beneath the pool's metal entrance stair case — as opposed to wasting energy pushing our bodies downwards.

Let's just say the lifeguard didn't like this method.
Not where I live (ace-K and sucralose). Maybe it differs per region.
A solution in search of a problem
I'm happy to see third-party comparisons, most of the marketing here indeed just assumes KGs are better with zero proof: marketers to be wary of. Unfortunately, I suspect a few key steps need to happen for this post to fairly reflect what the Microsoft NLP researchers called their alg, vs the broader family named by neo4j. Afaict, they're talking about a different graph.

* The kg index should be text documents hierarchically summarized based on an extracted named-entity-relation graph. The blog version seems to instead do (document, word), not the KG, and afaict, skips the hierarchical NER community summarization. The blog post is doing what neo4j calls a lexical graph, not the novel KG summary index of the MSR paper.

* The data volume should go up. Think a corpus like 100k+ tweets or 100+ documents. You start to see challenges like redundant tweets that clog retrieval/ranking, or many pieces of the puzzle spread over disparate chunks with indirect 'multi-hop' reasoning. Something like a debate can fit into one ChatGPT call, with no RAG. It's an interesting question how summarization preprocessing can still help small documents, but a more nuanced topic (and we have Thoughts on ;-))

* The tasks should reflect the challenges: multi-hop reasoning, wider summarization with fixed budget, etc. Retesting simple queries naive RAG already solves isn't the point. The paper focused on a couple types, which is also why they route to 2 diff retrieval modes. Subtle, part of the challenge in bigger data is how many resources we give the retriever & reasoner, and part of why graph rag is exciting IMO.

Afaict the blogpost essentially did a lexical graph with chunk/node embeddings, reran on a small document, and at that scale, asked simple q's... So close to a naive retrieval, and unsurprisingly, got parity. It's not too much more to improve so would encourage doing a bit more. Beyond the MSR paper, I would also experiment a bit more with retrieval strategies, eg, agentic layer on top, and include simple text search mixed in with reranking. And as validation before any of that, focus specifically on the queries expected to fail naive RAG and work in graph, and make sure those work.

Related: We are working on a variant of Graph RAG that solves some additional scale & quality challenges in our data (investigations: threat intel reports, real-time social & news, misinfo, ...), and may be open to an internship or contract role for the right person. One big focus area is ensuring AI quality & AI scale as our version is more GPU/AI-centric and used in serious situations by less technical users... A bit ironic given the article :) LMK if interested, see my profile. We'll need proof of capability for both engineering + AI challenges, and easier for us to teach the latter than the former.
Side vs tip doesn't come close to tipping the balance

And the last part is backwards - you don't need to use it repeatedly, there are much better alternatives, so you could just as well not mind not doing it
Growth Hacking Strategies to Increase Client Requests and Pros Subscriptions
Hey YC Community,

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Objective:
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Partnerships: Leveraging partnerships to drive client requests.

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This is an issue for movie discs too. Some mkv rips will preserve chapter data (though player support is spotty), but in the end it's still a big linear file— menus, intros, trailers, optional features, etc are all gone once it's ripped unless you rip that stuff to separate video files.

Which I get on the one hand, but it's a bummer that in all these cases (CD, DVD, Blu-Ray) the metadata for the larger structure of the production got inextricably tied to the specific physical media implementing it, such that the only real way to preserve that data was to rip a full disc copy.
Second on the "good swimmer drowning" part. I once swam in a pool with a few cousins of mine. I was around 18 and just finished a life guarding course at school. One cousin was around 11 years old.

She was panicking next to me in the pool all of a sudden and climbed on top of me. She wasn't heavy but her human effort to grab and exert pressure to use me as a float to stay above water forced me under. It was hard to get back up for air, and very sudden to which I didn't have a ton of air to begin with.

I remembered training, which was to pull the victim down with you to short circuit their brain into letting go, and it worked. I was able to swim out from her area, surface, catch a breath, and go help her to the shallow end.
If one train derails for some reason, then every single train on the line crashes in the greatest pileup ever. Great.
linky no goody. waddabout dizzy?

https://www.cell.com/molecular-cell/fulltext/S1097-2765(24)0...

edit: or to stay with source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S109727652...
You're on a boat with a hole in the bottom. The water is rushing in.
You grab a bucket and keep scooping water out, but not as fast as it rushes in.

Throwing water out of boats do not make it more buoyant.
You can find statements and notices and citations and such on the FCC web site to see what happens if you get caught out. If you're interested in that kind of thing, they're interesting reading.

Here is a pretty bad scenario for apparently willful unintentional radiator violations, where an ultrasonic foot bath company was at best unorganized and slow to comply with testing and labeling requirements:
https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-18-67A1.pdf

Here is a better scenario, where an LED sign manufacturer was a bit more on the ball:
https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-22-1136A1.pdf

Note in both cases there is no mention that these devices emitted RF above allowed limits for unintentional radiators. These companies simply didn't test and didn't label their devices appropriately.

Here's one for Asus, where they got WiFi products certified, and then changed something, probably firmware, that allowed those devices to transmit more power than allowed:
https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-24-69A1.pdf
They successfully trained LLMs on Lumi, which has AMD Instinct MI250X GPUs. This perhaps provides a hint about one angle on why AMD are interested.
Ask HN: What open source business models have worked?
We had a lively discussion over open source business models over dinner last night.

Conventional wisdom says that you should build a large community of users, and then you'll figure out how you monetize a subset of those users. The standard argument that follows is that you'll offer a SaaS version of the open source for those users who don't want to deal with self-hosting.

I'm not sure that argument holds. If you have a technical user who is perfectly capable of self-hosting, and I would argue even gets joy out of doing so, why would that user let go of that joy and pay up?

The inevitable path then is a license change (Business Source, anyone?), or even going entirely closed-source (e.g. Panther did that)

Curious to hear how everyone thinks about this topic, both from a user and provider perspective.
This. People really do forget what it was like just before the peak of the dotcom bubble. There were companies that offered perks like a fully paid lease on a brand new Porsche 911. This wasn't just for the software engineers either.

If you could breathe on a keyboard, you could land a high-paying job.

Demand was that high.

That era of tech minted way, way, way more millionaires on average.
>Minority affinity groups pull people from majority groups and decrease integration.

Integration === subjugation for minorities

>Anti-discrimination/sexism/etc. movements often add social barriers to interactions (e.g. things I do within my identity group would be misperceived if done across)

Indeed that's the point. You should be more mindful of things you do and say in this context.

>Affirmative action makes minorities feel like they don't deserve to be there (and often leads to resentment and other consequences)

And it pays their rent and provides social mobility for themselves and their families. We can get over the imposter syndrome; everyone has it for one reason or another. We can't get over being unemployed due to systemic biases.

Ultimately yes, for the prevailing group, DEI efforts will always feel like a personal attack. Levelling the playing field has that effect.
Modeling Monoliths with Claude
> the incentives of engineers require them to say yes to the company at all costs, because it's not worth their job to say no. The consequences of saying yes to a bad plan have to be worse than being fired.

This is true, and from what I understand can be partially true in medicine.
Huge congratulations to the founders and what a nice mark for the European (and Nordirc) startup community.

It's gonna be quite interesting to see if this works out strategically.

I guess the bet is an in-house army of PhDs vs. having a CUDA - which you don't as a second mover here - and assuming PhDs tightly coupled with the hardware can outperform an open framework/ push Triton to parity to CUDA over time.
Interesting. Seems quite well supported.

https://caniuse.com/css-variables
There’s a pattern I see (and indeed have even perpetuated once or twice) of “AWSguide based development” where someone copy pasted the default policy/roles directly from a guide into AWS CLI commands and just forgot about them after. Not as bad as the root credentials being used but certainly doesn’t help maintain a sane and understandable access system.

I know it’s a lot of extra maintenance effort and probably more difficult but AWS could go a long way towards making this more sane and transparent by giving gitops examples alongside their CLI ones. Even someone just copy pasting terraform or cloud formation is going to be way more visible than AWS CLI
An Automatic Sealing Mechanism for Extraterrestrial Sample-Collecting Robot
Anyone know a timeline for AMD on MLPerf?
I'm curious how you run the python code in the browser
The models are here: https://huggingface.co/LumiOpen
Expert talent and prob some in house tech.

Mainly talent I guess which they can put to accelerating Triton development, their alternative to CUDA.
What do you mean by "getting a better idea of things"? The rules governing Bitcoin are chosen by humans. It's a cultural artifact. We have very limited abilities to affect the distribution of gold. The two are not alike.
> Does it bother anyone else that the picture featuring the author shows a blackboard containing seemingly unrelated equations

The central equation on the whiteboard is actually the Drake equation [0] which as per TFA is the subject of her next book. So it at least is directly relevant.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation
There are rules for stylelint that will reorder and dedupe Tailwind classes.
Yes and it saved/will have saved them literally billions over the following 20 years.
The market (which I think is what you mean when you say "capitalism," a word devoid of content) is an abstract thing and indeed has no morals. Humans do. They act together to reduce harm, usually, given our arc of history.
When humans form totalitarian "anti-capitalist" regimes they usually go about killing a few million other humans. Hurray for their superior morals.
That's certainly a theory that Bluebeard would subscribe to.
What makes people go whight-knighting for merely perceived wishes? And that's before even thinking why those wishis should trump other's wish to discuss this on a public forum.
Congrats to the founders indeed, but

> what a nice mark for the European (and Nordirc) startup community.

Not sure if it is a great win for the EU at large if their AI startups get bought up by American companies though, to be fair.
Direnv is very useful for switching between projects, we have an article:
https://nixos.asia/en/direnv

But if you are comfortable with Nix you don't need Devbox per se, as you can get by with using Flakes. Here are some examples -- just `git clone` and run `direnv allow` (once), then you are put in the corresponding devShell

Haskell: https://github.com/srid/haskell-template

Rust: https://github.com/srid/rust-nix-template

home-manager: https://github.com/juspay/nix-dev-home

Dioxus: https://github.com/srid/dioxus-desktop-template
This and the MI300x makes me hopeful for AMD