skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not against AI in software per se (I like the ChatGPT desktop app), but I prefer not to have AI in tools where the primary use case is not related to AI. Specifically, I don't want to have to consider how the AI is being developed and integrated (e.g., whether my data is being used for training an LLM), and, in general, I prefer for my software to be a bit conservative in relation to new trends (being it anything from crypto to AI).
I had a moment recently where I was trying to understand "why developers would create such an interface" in an application I was using when I realized I was looking at, basically, a "React-type interface" in a place where that doesn't fit, and the "why" is perhaps that this is the kind of thing younger developers are used to seeing/implementing, so they probably don't even recognize when it's a bad approach.
The linear node layout is not the point at all.

It's serving two purposes here:

1) Providing us with a correct "guess" of what the next node is.
2) Ensuring that in all cases we're running from the L1 cache.

In real world code, you'd be correct -- getting things to run out of L1/L2 is the most important attribute. This is specifically about a micro-optimization that allows you to beat the obvious code even when running completely from cache!
It's due to the people responsible for the tech having no idea how people want to use the tech.

What means you can expect it continuing downhill until somebody higher up acts.
Not the visuals, sure, but there's the question of the salt (they say it's reclaimed, I don't know where it ends up) - we probably want all those back, and the fact that it would be body temperature.
Ok. we've replaced seagulls with oystercatchers in the title above. Thanks!
Show HN: Xy10K – I use clickbait to try to validate my idea
In short I ask people to add their salaries and see how rich they are in their country and after that I ask them to provide bank statement and help them optimize their expenses.

Very early version and might be buggy. Good thing is we charge for it, kek.
That one looks useful and likely to be still around 24 months from now.
> // SAFETY: do you trust me?

No.

Have you seen the safer-ffi crate? Then you won't have to commit the deadly sin of writing unsafe Rust
The problem with such "lessons learned" is that they are usually not lessons learned - I bet there were numerous people within the organization who knew about these issues before the test.

The actual issue is probably that these people are (a) ineffectual at communicating and prioritizing concerns clearly; or (b) good at communicating, but are not being listened to; or (c) they are listened to, but the organization has no practical means to fix this - no money, unable to recruit talent, etc.

Most techies often assume (b), but (a) is at least as common. The last issue - (c) - might be superficially true, although it's usually not correct in a deeper sense: there is plenty of discretionary and wasteful spending in any sufficiently large bureaucracy. Central resource allocation is just a hard problem.

Anyway, my point is that the problems that need fixing are almost never just technical. Recommendations such as "implement sufficient controls to detect malicious activity" seldom get to the root cause. They are still useful in temporarily overcoming organizational obstacles, but it usually doesn't last.
The article is complaining exactly about 'modernization'.
At least 65 pilot whales die in Scottish mass stranding
True but personally I also wouldn’t want to go through the time and expense to sue them solo. At least in a class action the company faces some penalty that’s possibly meaningful to them (even if it’s not meaningful to most of the claimants).
"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home."
- Ken Olsen

I was there. I remember people saying it, but this f*cking site wants to downvote me into negative for remembering it, probably because they are thinking of business computers. Everyone was on board with that. I'm talking specifically of home computers.
That's what the the post's author wants, but apparently Microsoft is breaking github instead.

I am sure Github will be around in the decade, but I am not sure at all it will still be everyone's default location to host source code. Which is a pity.
When I was in school (almost 20 years ago) this came up because someone mentioned the first 6 digits of their SSN and they matched mine. Since then it's similarly bothered the hell out of me that the practice is to mask all but the last 4 of the SSN and that a lot of places require you to enter your last 4 of your SSN.

I didn't know the reasons for the matches but them being my age and likely born in the same place as me made me realize those were identifiers and the last 4 were the unique bit.
People loved the phones, but they didn't buy them. The carriers didn't want to sell them because they don't get paid on the backend. As I said, the business model doesn't work.
> It might mean 20% more neutrinos exist than we think.

Would it though? It's not like we know neutrino mass from measurement, rather we estimate it from nuclear reactions that have occurred. The estimate would not change if a neutrino oscillates into a sterile one.
>No. Today cryptocoin scams have blue checkmarks when before they didn't.

They also had blue checks before. I know this because I use Twitter for over 10 years now.
This release coincides with the SciPy 2024 conference and a number of other things. I would suggest reading the article to learn more.
> A big issue with these metrics is that they use the official exchange rate for RUB to USD exchange rate

Isn’t the main point of PPP-based metrics that they DON’T use the official exchange rate?
Python 3 progress so far:

[x] Async.
[x] Optional static typing.
[x] Threading.
[ ] JIT.
[ ] Efficient dependency management.
That would suck for any kindle reader people. One of the best features is volume to switch pages.
Given your comment and the negative note of its parent, I'm wondering if its sarcastic nature was missed or if people interacting with it did got it was intended to be a caricature but were pissed of by its actual critic of state mass surveillance and its ridiculous "think of the children" pedonazis scarecrow.

I don't buy duality as you present. Two points is just an invitation and opportunity to envision interpolations, extrapolate some spectral scales, wondering about additional dimensions, and fathom how it might interfere with the rest of our representations.

Rights and left are just two points. Intimate mind experiences can modulate interpolations in-between.

Duty and rights are all parts of the same object, it's just a matter of perspective that can make them appear to be separated consideration. Just like creation and constraints. Nothing exists without ontological restrictions that allows its form to happen.
I might be out in left field here but I think there may not be a person who currently fully understands the entire workings of modern intel chips who can then identify a root cause of the issue.

There may also be some AI chip design shenanigans going on as well, which would further exacerbate the human comprehension difficulty scale.
When is this coming to businesses so that employers can track employees time? "Over the last month you've spent a combined 4 hours on returning from breaks and lunches, and will be debited one half a vacation day"
This pattern is so frustrating - especially when they capture the hotkey for find in page but not until js has fully loaded. Makes me wonder if exposing the browser find events to the page could help - handle the find event by ensuring the whole dom is loaded and searchable.
Fast-takeoff AI Doom scenarios are implausible
VTI and VXUS. Nothing more and nothing less, like the good Lord intended.
I feel like the post has a narrow focus. Github is solving a quite heterogeneous problem for a diverse audience. People use Github and Git in completely different ways; so they have a spacebar heating issue. Their blame view, which half the post is about, I've rarely ever used. Likewise, some teams rebase during code review, others handle review outside, etc etc.

As for the Ctrl+F issue, I could see that rendering giant files with syntax highlighting can tank performance on older computers, and that they're trying to fix it for people who use Github (on web - remember), thinking that if you need full greppability, you might clone the repo locally.

I don't know, maybe Github is screwing everything up behind the scenes, but this post doesn't make a compelling argument in my view.
They generally do. It is difficult to differentiate "negative tokens don't do that" and "prompt adherence is shaky in general".

It's fully possible that the image model draws eggs in ramen but it doesn't know that the egg is an egg and therefore any attempts to interact with it via the egg token are futile. Generally speaking though thing:-1 should reduce the presence of thing for well understood concepts. It's a better tool on second pass alterations of an image.
What does this company need an all-seeing eye for? Directory listings of every building and recursive search on the long-tail of typical search engine blind spots don't seem profitable enough on their own.
Fascinating take, had never heard this term. Totally makes sense that intelligence/logic without access to peak information will keep spitting out subpar answers.
I’m sticking with iShares MSCI World SRI + a small amount stock picks
From the Lab to the Trading Floor: Designing for Expert Users
Well the clothing and hairstyle in the top photo looks pretty modern to me
two days after [expletive deleted] threatened to put Zuck on the retribution list.
I do hope, millions of years in the future, the sentient cockroaches of earth have the curiosity to clone the long-extinct humans.
An article about responsive bar charts without them? (Firefox)

I'm not hip enough to find this funny.
thanks for trying it out!

this is a commonly reported bug that wasn't able to spot when in development mode.

i think the issue is that i might have attached the volume-button handler multiple times, so that each time you click on the volume button, those duplicated handlers all emit events.

pushed out a small fix currently under apple's review
- Shop Talk Show. Chris Coyier is my idol
- Syntax. Been watching less since they no longer have the catchy intro song.
- Thinking Elixir. Dislike the intro but love Elixir.
- JS Party, Changelog. By far the best intro songs and sound affects.

Yea, I am web developer who can’t get enough, and heavily like catchy intros
Is this a social engineering test to see how many hacker news users will blindly download a testflight app? I assume it's been reviewed by the app store by this point, right?
Also NAL, but watch out for how this is reported to states. California is currently $800/year min, even if the entity has no activity.
Aha, thanks for that detailed answer! Really fascinating to hear others' approaches to this area of building simple but full apps with LLMs. I'll definitely be following your progress, curious to see where this goes. And I will read your blog post this afternoon!
It's main use is for browsing documents.

It's not so much that it isn't an app, but that many of its goals should be similar to browsers.
No VXUS/VTIAX? I am looking to debate its merits in one's portfolio, since it's such a hotly contested topic in some communities e.g., Bogleheads.

I try to maintain some arbitrary split between the two, but I do not have a ton of faith in Int. overtaking the US market anytime soon, but I am often wrong about most things, so that's why I ignore my gut feelings.
I stand corrected. Thanks. I didn't bother to look it up, since I'm old and got mine when I started working. Although people born 1968-1981 were getting SSNs where they currently lived, which is not necessarily where they were born; which was the original point.
There's a better workaround, incidentally, which is to map the same memory to two different address ranges with different access permissions. This allows code in the JIT region to be updated while threads may be running in it.
What kind of legal protections do you think should go?

BTW, say, your bedroom serves no public benefit; its point is to provide you some highly private benefits. Is it bad?

I'd say that any activity is fine, as long as it does not result in or intended for public harm. Providing a public benefit should be strictly optional; paying taxes should be enough.
Oh, right, I forgot to mention what the children are in this study.

> Seven children (two girls and five boys, eleven- to twelve-years-old) in their second year of Logo programming participated in the study. The children were highly motivated to learn Logo programming, and had averaged over fifty hours of classroom programming time under the supervision of experienced classroom teachers knowledgeable in the Logo language, who followed the "discovery" logo pedagogy set out by Papert [3]. All seven children had received instruction in iteration and recursion, and had demonstrated in their classroom programming that they could use iteration and recursion in some contexts

To those who don't get what "discovery" method implies, it is proposed by Seymour Papert, a pioneer of computer pedagogy, based on the constructionist theory of learning. It posits that students learn best when they are actively engaged in constructing their own knowledge and understanding through the creation of personally meaningful artifacts or projects. They would be on their own, writing programs with minimal guidance, developing their own intuitive understanding of how programs operate.

I don't know what was Papert's intention, as I never read his book Mindstorms in full, but from what I read, I think 20% probability he believed that the "stack" concept would be discovered by children, and 80% probability he believed that children should be allowed to discover concepts on their own, even if they "misunderstand" the nature of computer programming, because there is no nature, except what we construct of them, and so there is nothing to "misunderstand". He is a radical constructivist in pedagogy.

Notably, in the study, the children were receiving instructions (though what kind of instruction, the authors didn't say). It was discovered that pure discovery learning is extremely inefficient, and so most actual discovery learning programs were not "pure", but included extensive instruction, or guidance. See for example Mayer, R. E. (2004). Should There Be a Three-Strikes Rule Against Pure Discovery Learning? American Psychologist, 59(1), 14–19.

I actually was thinking of adding this study somewhere in my post on the Perceptron Controversy, but don't have a good place to place it.

https://yuxi-liu-wired.github.io/essays/posts/perceptron-con...
yep was trying to avoid word which carry varying connotations, e.g. vpn or zero trust.

zero implicit trust is likely the best term? you have to trust something, but enforce (and therefore trust) strong (not network based) identity, authN and authZ. this can be done anywhere via a software-only overlay.

a litmus test is server iptables (to use an example) looks like:
iptables -P INPUT DROP
iptables -P FORWARD DROP

and the only route outbound from the server is to the private overlay on one port, and that server still can't make those connections unless it is strongly identified and authenticated, and the overlay will not connect the client and server unless they are both authorized to communicate for that particular service(1)

(1)so for example if there is a zero day causing the 'server' to try to communicate with some_IP then the private overlay will not accept the connection, even though it is coming from the server
There was actually "SUA" after "SFU", only removed in Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2.
Not sure what this list means, there are successful languages without these feature. Also Python 3.13 [1] has an optional JIT [2], disabled by default.

[1] https://docs.python.org/3.13/whatsnew/3.13.html

[2] https://peps.python.org/pep-0744/
I have memories of strongly disliking that movie as well, but I haven't seen it since I was a little kid.
Thanks for the feedback; I tweaked the brightness and pushed the change.
Honest Business Books
Japan's diaper makers look to adult market for revenue as births fall
https://archive.ph/r4Sny
I appreciate your input! If everything else fails, I'll epxeriment with sound. Maybe not with bells, but the sounds his body makes during the seizure might be easily detected (especially on hardwood floor)
> What's the sterile neutrino the partner to?

It would be a very unusual partner that has no concerved quantum numbers, and only mass.

A sterile neutrino would also imply that the neutrino is a Majorana particle (because it would have not quantum numbers that could be "anti").
clever take on reasoning vs. retrieval. the API is pretty clean, though some searches are still just ok.
oh damn i wasn't aware of this given that Apple's native camera app can use volume button to take pics
> I think this movement around 'debunking AI' is entirely the fault of marketing and company CEOs inflating the potential around generative AI to such ridiculous amounts.

I don't think you should let the AI research community off the hook so easily. Some of the most obnoxious and influential voices are researchers who are taken as credible authorities. I'm thinking for instance of the disgraceful "Sparks of AGI" paper from Sebastien Bubeck's research team at Microsoft Research, also certain "godfathers", etc.
[Generic/random advice from the internet]

1) Create custom visuals for touring musicians. Should I find a rep or agency to represent me for landing big projects? Should I start reaching out directly to the business managers of musicians? Should I start a company with a partner?

To me, the big idea is right. The approach vector is wrong. Talk to musicians directly. They are the one's calling the shots. Talking to their gatekeepers means dealing with someone whose jam is gatekeeping. Gatekeepers are risk adverse because they want to keep their position as a gatekeeper.

No primary is going to reject your product because you bypassed their gatekeepers. They might redirect you to one of their people if they are interested instead of hanging with you. Or they might reject you outright.

The next step is hard work and lots of rejection. The reality is that most people in any business have existing relationships for goods and services...e.g. people who use VJ services in their business already have working relationships with people providing VJ services.

Going further, touring musicians tend to have a team they tour with..."there's a VJ in the tour van" so to speak. That person has experience with the problems of touring.

2) Continue making VJ packs for thousands of VJs internationally. Should I move to an annual membership fee instead of a monthly membership fee on Patreon? Should I move to an online shop format instead of a Patreon membership?

My advice is to become more personal. More custom. What actual problems can you solve for for specific VJ's and how much will they pay? Basically, consulting/freelancing/contract work for people with money to spend on bespoke products.

Doing either or both of those things will raise your experience when making new commodity products if you go that route. And three revenue streams is better than one. Be flexible, try lots of things and see what there is a market for. Good luck.
costs more to mail a letter
Troisieme is the third when counting. “Tiers” is the third when taking a fraction.

I can only speak to modern french though.
Those commodities won't even come close to covering their spending spree. And their reserves are running dry very quickly. Likely by the end of this year.
it's a testflight app i built for fun but apparently it might not be able to pass the apple review for production release (i just learned this 2 seconds ago)
Seems like a heavy handed edit, I can see the destination URL in parentheses and it's a dead giveaway before clicking or hovering over the link
In the regions where it works (PNW, Quebec, etc) we could easily build more. The hurdles are regulatory. The regulation isn’t baseless - a dam will affect the local ecosystem adversely. But that’s a tradeoff we choose rather than a fundamental limitation.
Personal data cannot be secured. The only way is to not store it. That will (imaginationaly) cost companies in lost revenue for being unable to mine and sell it. Only government can make laws against a company taking your personal information and selling it. Even passwords shouldn't be stored by a company.

The years of lost time argument is disingenuous. Over that number of people, 209 years of lost time from 700 million years of lives is nothing.
Charity? I sympathize somewhat, but I’m also disgusted by the utter lack of respect for government and societal service in general. That shit means something.

I wish to believe there are still people that don’t care about making Yet Another few hundred thousand and just want to actually contribute to society instead of working on ad tech or whatever bullshit.
The blog is literally built using unsupported software (Octopress). I don't think it's been updated since 2016.
Of course this had to be whisked off the front page ;)

> Through an op-ed in Time, Altman and Huffington had just announced the launch of a new company called Thrive AI Health

Launching Companies Grifter, I guess he found his shtick.
> That's the easy part

Wait, I thought that's the _difficult_ part! What kind of accelerometer would that be? And is there a microcontroller small and light enough for a cat?

(and thanks for your answer of course!)
Is ti possible to do this for the giant ground sloth too, or there is no well preserved DNA sample for it so far?
This is it for me tbh. Yeah I don't want my identity stolen and I'm still careful but after Equifax I just assume everyone already has my data so all of these data breaches are meaningless to me at this point. It sucks and it makes me mad but all I can do is shake my fist and wish these companies would be better anyway, so what else can I do but just be ok with it?
Key word is might. Yes, it’s a game of probability, and also a game of “is it, though?” I would posit that something maintained by the wider public is less likely to contain bugs than something maintained by a smaller/less varied group (you or your company).

Yes, you can point to xz-utils as an example of the ineffectiveness of groups at catching attacks, but it’s also famous because it’s exceptionally bad and probably not normal.
> Astronomers find the nearest massive black hole

More accurate: "Astronomers find the nearest massive black hole that they've found".

Because they don't yet know there's no nearer one.
What can i say, pixelmonkey! this!

It's funny that you mention WordPress, because that's one of the main reasons why we developed Daminik. Many of our customers use WordPress, most of them are from the publishing industry. All of them use some kind of DAM, either a local one or one in the cloud. Some of the tools also provide a WordPress plugin. However, what all of these tools currently do is copy the assets into the WordPress media library instead of taking the URL/File from the DAM/CDN. This creates a lot of duplicates that nobody can maintain.

One of the most important things on our roadmap is the development of a WordPress plugin to fix this problem. Will be ready soon.
I'd love to hear the arguments why Meta shouldn't do this.
KDGpu – wrapper around Vulkan to make modern graphics easier to learn and use
Very cool! I enjoy seeing people writing asm, and letting us get the most out of our CPUs.

I see you already tried what I thought of, which is getting rid of the jump table and making each instruction handler the same size. Do you think that could still work if you limited each instruction handler to 64 or 32 bytes instead of 256, and then for longer handlers jumped to a larger body of code somewhere else?