skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm working on visual programming for Python. I created an Python editor, that is notebook based (similar to Jupyter) but each cell code in the notebook has graphical user interface. In this GUI you can select your code recipe, a simple code step, for example here is a recipe to list files in the directory https://mljar.com/docs/python-list-files-in-directory/ - you fill the UI and the code is generated. You can execute code cells in the top to bottom manner. In this approach you can click Python code. If you can't find UI with recipe, then you can ask AI assistant (running Llama3 with Ollama) or write custom python code. The app is called MLJAR Studio and it is a desktop based application, so all computations are running on your machine. You can read more on my website https://mljar.com
Eh. Shuffling pictures from my G9x MkII to my Android phone is pretty simple enough. I do wish the data transfer speeds were faster, but it is still stupid simple to pair to the phone. From there I can see the photos and choose which to download. Or I can select them on my camera and send them to my phone or laptop. I've often taken the camera with me on a trip with some friends and shuffled the photos into group chats the next time I had a few minutes of downtime.

The camera which is several years old at this point already has some good video stabilization. The AF is backed with good hardware, its pretty good and can even do face detection. Its far faster and more accurate than my much newer Pixel.

I wouldn't really care to do much post processing on the camera itself other than the basic filters and affects it can already do, as the interface is pretty small so it is hard to get details. If I'm really going to do some post-processing I'll be pushing it to my desktop with a large monitor so I can really see what I'm doing. But honestly if I'm going to work at it on my desktop I'll more likely just pull out the SD card and stick it in the computer and get far faster transfer speeds.

About the only feature I'd personally like would just be some kind of direct camera integration with Google Photos/OneDrive/iCloud/OwnCloud/whatever, have it just start syncing photos the moment it detects its online. That and good built-in GPS support. Apart from that I don't really know what else I'd do with more "smart" connectivity. I bought a camera like this because I wanted to manually adjust things instead of having some AI model twist and warp the photo into whatever the training data suggests looks good.
I was originally also a pretty big anti-fan of the whole db idea.

But it makes sense here. What I want is a block-oriented outliner with a lot of referencing around. This is not a great use-case for raw files (the referencing everywhere, specifically), while it's a pretty trivial one for let's say SQLite (which they're using here).

Do note that I believe the current plan is to have two-way sync between files and the db, so presumably custom modification of md files should still work fine. But we'll see how that evolves.

This is exacerbated by e.g. block IDs, which right now have to be shoehorned into the markdown format, while being hidden by the editor - which can be error prone as those IDs can move around. With a DB that's a solved problem. In Obsidian when you're doing block-level linking you end up with explicit "^jnflds" ID markers all over the place at line ends, which is quite awful if that's your primary use-case (to be clear, Obsidian overall is great, just not what I'm looking for - but if you care about the "raw files" approach, they seem to be embracing it).
It's shocking how many people don't even know that this is a thing that can be done in the first place. People often see the terms offered as a "take it or leave it" sort of deal. But it rarely is.

The terms of employment are the opening offer of a contract negotiation. The worst thing making a counteroffer will get you is "no", not "we're withdrawing the employment offer".

As my old business partner taught me, if you don't ask then the answer is automatically "no".
Sure, a camera is a specialized tool doing a limited set of functions. It does not need the vast majority of functions Android offers: phone, 5g, internet, app stores... No nerd for that on a camera.

What camera needs: fast "boot", stability, reliability, ability to run offline for decades.

And no, I don't want all software being developed the way a social.media app for a phone is.
Yes. Context is very important. Otherwise, you end up compressing files into a "postcode file".[0]

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36231313
Because programmers are too lazy to properly handle long names? That's a stretch for denying someone service and you know it.

Like, yes, nobody is forced to accept their name unless they're running a government service, but using it as an excuse is just that, an excuse.
I don't really understand what you are saying - are you arguing that simulations are never useful? Or that these researchers do not understand the limits of their simulation?
He allegedly told the utility company that he wouldn't pay his bill unless they spelled his name correctly, which caused them to print it on three lines. Maybe this guy is just a walking software test case?
>I think one of the things COVID and the subsequent WFH discussion highlighted for me is how much there's a certain kind of person, often managers, who have a lot of meetings and use them for socialization.

I constantly say that the push against WFH is all coming from extroverts that are mad that they can't steal energy from the rest of us.
Trump classified documents case dismissed
hm I don't think that passwords are an example of good IT security. There are much better options like physical tokens, biometric features, passkeys etc. that are less obtrusive and don't require the users to follow certain learned rules and behaviors.

If the security concept is based on educating and teaching people how to behave it's prone to fail anyway, as there will always be that one uninformed and ignorant person like me that doesn't get the message. As soon as there is one big gaping hole in the wall, the whole fortress becomes useless (Case in point: haveibeenpwned.com) Also, good luck teaching everyone in the company how to identify a personalized phishing message crafted by ChatGPT.

For the other two arguments: I don't see how "But we solved it in my company" and "Some other departments also have safety/security-related primary KPIs" justifies that IT security should be allowed to just air-gap the company if it serves these goals.
Yes. Some of it is just plain dillusion. My grandmother went through so much trouble and time finding someone she wanted to sell her business to because of "her clients" etc. She sold it and complained about everything the lady did to the business. She even financed the sale so she could sell to her, denying cash offers that came in much higher. The person she sold it to sold off half the business and clients almost immediately.
I don’t think it’s reasonable to say “just don’t have internet connected devices at all” in 2024. This falls too far into “caveat emptor” territory for my tastes. We all need to be informed and responsible but the burden of creating a totally disconnected-from-the-internet house (except for your core devices like phones/laptops) is actually pretty substantial and gets harder every year. Hell it’s becoming a problem with cars.
Maybe they will take on that role too one day
This seems analogous to how large companies now scrape user-generated content to train their language models for profit.
50M people worldwide in modern slavery
I was at least vaguely aware of <base>. No idea what <samp>, <track>, <dfn> or <del> do. Also apparently <ruby> is not for embedding Ruby scripts: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/ru...
Stuff that happens at compile-time is O(0) (well, technically it's amortized over the number of times you run the compiled code, eh? Huh, how does JIT compilation affect Big-O analysis?)
RIP that person's laptop hinge. With use, hinges loosen, and I can't imagine that sort of stress would slow the process.
Camera tech on a phone is automated post-processing. Nothing else.
A couple jobs ago, I worked on writing an API client for a CRM system that supported 2GB for most of the text fields (name, address line 1, job title, etc...). It also offered up 99 "custom field" text fields, also allowing up to 2GB each.

I'd considered base64-encoding my ripped DVD collection, and using them to store another backup copy for me.
I apologize, I should've read more of the article. My bad
> How do we know it wasn't a placenta in delicate wine sauce?

I've never seen a placenta described as an "inch-thick steak" by people who have eaten steaks many times before. It is not a thick muscle, and none of the anthropological accounts of disposing placentas mention it tasting like a steak (it is usually prepared in a non-steak fashion), and checking now accounts of it like https://www.cosmopolitan.com/lifestyle/a8465402/american-aft... confirms that it tastes rather unlike a thick beefsteak.

Also, this question is a good example of irrationality in insisting on evaluating pieces of evidence in isolation, rather than as a whole. You see this kind of motivated reasoning a lot in scandals and coverups.

The point the story makes is that there are two possible worlds: one in which there is no slavery, and the various anomalies the visitors observe are simply anomalies (eg. those itinerant fieldworkers really did just happen to have moved on to the next town already); and one in which there is and the local authorities are making every effort to cover it up as part of a systematic, planned campaign of deception and lies. And the visitors are trying to figure out which world they live in.

If they lived in the first world, perhaps it really is just a human placenta, somehow (maybe there's a clever way to prepare it), and it is cannibalism of one of the most harmless sort, or it is some sort of very well-developed vegetarian meat substitute; but combine that with all the other anomalies, and it is immediately obvious they lived in the second world, where it is exactly what it seems - a thick meaty steak from the only adult mammal they have observed on the planet, indicative of an entire social structure gone horribly wrong for a millennium and unfixable without centuries of reconstruction, which is actively manipulating & deceiving them and everything from it should be regarded as further lies & attacks, and it is pointless to do any further inspections or reveal to them what the misteak was.

Insisting on interpreting each point in isolation will yield the wrong answer. "How do you know the fieldworkers are slaves? Can you prove it?" "How do you know it was a steak and not a placenta - prove it!" etc.

> The story is that they had quite the hard time surviving on their planet. If people die trying to survive and there is no other food. Should one chose to die from starvation? Should I be the one to judge here?

To point out the obvious, cannibalizing humans as a normal state of affairs cannot have starvation as an excuse - if you're a human. Because you could just eat what they were eating. You can starve to death in a field of cows because you can't eat grass, and have necessity as a justification, but not in a field of fellow humans eating grapes or wheat or all the other crops implied to be raised successfully and maintain a stable population there... And given trophic efficiency, if starvation were an actual concern, you would feed more humans by not raising any for cannibalism.
If this is true, google needs to be charged with the violation of various privacy laws.

I’m not sure how they can claim they have informed consent for this from their customers
If you are talking about pjc50, I thought it was interesting as well, but also came off like a canned response or AI text.

With respect to Knight and polybius, I agree that is an interesting perspective. It can also be viewed through the lens of the evolution of memes. Just like biological evolution, some species are dead ends, go extinct, or form unstable fits between organism and environment.

It stands that we would expect the same to be true for memes. It seems reasonable that some memes, either individually or in combination can be detrimental in a way terminal to the individual or society.

Evolutionary pressures being what they are, ideas that promote continuity will prevail unless there is a cataclysm. That said, changes can be abrupt and painful, like the bubonic plague killing half of Europe
My older Olympus camera does the opposite. Becomes an AP and then the phone app switches WiFi networks and connects that way. It's an interesting approach but the problem is that Android and iOS get up to wonky unpredictable action when dealing with private ad-hoc wifi networks, so the situ becomes unreliable. (this was a vexing problem when I worked on the Google WiFi some years ago). That and the wifi range is terrible, and it's a drain on the camera's batteries.
Don't we pretty much understand stars though? Big ball of gas, hydrogen fusion, etc. Are there any unaccounted energy outflows that would leave room for something like this?

The main reason we look at black holes so hard is because quantum mechanics can't describe gravity (yet) and general relativity just shrugs and says "I don't do inside event horizons, buddy, but why do you care? You can't even experiment inside one". So it's one of those head-scratchers where the math isn't really helping us figure out _what_ is going on, and the darn things are really hard to observe.
Show HN: I made a convenient way to generate article summaries with AI
Add "puny.press/" to the beginning of an article URL and after signing up/logging in you'll get a summary of the article.

See how I got straight to the point above?

I feel like most news articles don't do this anymore. They usually have a clickbait title then start out with some filler paragraphs for the sake of SEO, then there is prob some annoying fullscreen ad that lags and you have to scroll by then finally if you're lucky you get to the main content.

PunyPress is my simple way of trying to fix that.

Would appreciate any suggestions or feedback!
Except that's not what's happening, so why pretend otherwise?
That's awesome! Gotta check this out.
In HS we were learning basic HTML and I did not care at all at the time.

The teacher had us build a page with like 10 tags or something. I thought I was clever and quickly wrote out:

h1
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Needless to say he told me to figure out why I needed to redo it.
Ask HN: Should OpenAI enter every market and give everyone free money?
OpenAI's charter is to produce AGI that is a benefit for everyone. A copy of their charter is here: https://openai.com/charter/

Supposing they succeed, AGI will be able to autonomously produce and market its own products without human intervention.

Currently it looks like this will be used by profit seeking companies to maximize their profits while laying off workers who can be replaced by OpenAI credits.

Rather than have all the resources owned by private companies that don't even employ anyone, once AGI that can do anything is developed, should OpenAI use it to enter every market, and then distribute cash from sales of every product and service type to everyone to use to buy whatever they want, without having to do anything for it?

Under this scenario in a future where AI does all the work, humans could all benefit.
I think by "track" they mean "keep track of". A lot of people don't get the same connection to digits in a DB as they did to cash, plus you can't spend cash you don't have.

If you hand somebody $500, they know how much they have, and they know how much they spent even after a few transactions.

If you hand somebody a debit card with a balance of $500, it's easier to lose track and keep swiping until it's in overdraft.
The New Holy Grail for Weight-Loss Drugs Is Sleep Apnea
I think I should clarify...
A multilayer perceptron can classify the red and blue dots if it uses a non-linear activation function for some or most of its layers correct?

If its perceptrons all the way down, it will fundamentally reduce down to a linear function or single linear layer and will not be able to classify the dots.

So there's the downside of not being able to linearly separate certain datasets, and the inability to scale weights or thresholds by differences in expected and observed data (e.g. using backpropagation)
That's what bindgen is for, as was mentioned in the original comment you replied to.
https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/sleep-apnea-weight-los...
Even that’s pushing the boat out a bit: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2022/12/you-dont-need-html/
Oh ok,the government has the money, and do not want to invest it in infrastructure i suppose?

Honestly it feels like a coinflip for the local consumption, it will depends on the strength of the middle class.
Pascal strings have overhead of 2 ints per string (16 bytes on 64-bit systems)

The kind of person who calls a single pass through the string a "horribly inefficient solution" will faint at the idea of burdening every string with 16 more bytes of data.
Maybe more obscure now. This tag was extremely common in early web development.
This distinctly reminds me of spacebar heating workflow [1].

[1] https://xkcd.com/1172/
To me, you have to distinguish between harassment directed at a person, and on the other hand discussion about a person.

It is not possible to use hacker news to send messages to someones email. It is not even possible to send a dm to another hacker news user. You could potentially imagine hacker news being used to organize harassment of someone, but I have never seen either accusations or evidence of such a thing.

So then we have established, that since harassment directed at them is impossible, the issue they have is that people on hacker news write bad things about them.

Next, those things seem to often be flagged or downvoted, reducing exposure. But that is apparently not enough, because they can be found on google. So here we arrive at the core issue. There is content on Google about this person, that they would rather not be on Google. This is the complaint. So this person is basically saying that if there is unfavorable coverage of them findable on google, that is harassment, and it needs to go. If it isn't purged it's bullying that could lead to suicide.

This is a very ambitious "landgrab" if you will, and it starts to seriously infringe on other peoples rights.

It's similar in that manner to other things like "stop terrorism" or "think of the children". Yes clearly harassment is bad, and terrorism is bad, and pedophiles are no good. But we can't completely give up on our freedoms because of that.
Interesting:
Despite Haraguchi's efforts and detailed documentation, the Guinness World Records have not yet accepted any of his records set.
This misses a bigger issue with a baby bust: population composition. When birth rates decline sharply all at once, as is happening here, populations skew older and older. More elderly people being supported by fewer young people is also not a recipe for sustainability, in fact it is quite the opposite. The people who will be burdened with caring for the elderly are also the people who will need to have children in order to stabilize the population. This isn't an easy leveling-off of a population, its the beginning of a collapse.
C with its notion of an object, TBAA, and pointer provenance is already disconnected from what the machine is doing.

The portable assembly myth is a recipe for getting Undefined Behavior. C is built on an abstract machine described in the C spec, not any particular machine code or assembly.

Buffers (objects) in C already have an identity and a semantically important length. C just lacks features to keep track of this explicitly and enforce error handling.

Languages exist to provide a more useful abstraction on top of the machine, not to naively mirror everything even where it is unhelpful and dangerous. For example, BCPL did not have pointer types, only integers, because they were the same thing for the CPU. That was a mess that C (mostly) fixed by creating "fictional" types that didn't exist at the assembly level.
"if you connect to source control within the editor you can at least diff blueprints to compare changes. though it's currently not possible to actually merge them."

https://www.reddit.com/r/unrealengine/comments/1azcww8/how_d...

So it seems like basic functionality like merge is still missing from visual coding in Unreal.

But yes, there were also huge projects before the invention of distributed version control systems. But that wasn't a good world and why go back?

P.S.: Have you ever tried to merge two different excel files?
I remember when it was QuakeSpy... The original Team Fortress mod for Quake was my absolute favorite back then.
It seems ridiculous to ask this question without clarifying what sort of discrimination you are asking (implying) about.
Your GPS/radio head unit is likely not at all the one reporting data maliciously to OEM/Vendor integrators etc. GPS is an open standard at least until the US Military says "this is no longer open."

Auto OEMs as a rule have more "data points" for inference than any other hardware platform/software integration. IE; actions you take in the car and the info gleamed from those actions ar more valuable to marketers than data from your cell phone. None of this needs a gps signal, there are dozens of speed,time,weight,weather,delta, sensors..

Ford for example can brag that it, more than any other manufacturer on the planet, knows exactly how often you go to gas station X from location Y, if you get gas, and where you go after. They can tell where you look, how much you weigh, your common routine, even your contacts PID. You type of "personality" can be determined trivially (IE buying/travel habits).

Your vehicle is 100 percent complicent in building a marketing/safety profile for you.
Is this^ even "bad"? I think so. But I am not an expert and have yet to have an issue with it in my life.
Sony also had a product line of these kinds of devices a decade ago. You know its an old review when one of the cons listed is "No support for Windows Phone."

https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/sony-cyber-shot-dsc-qx10
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I was going to write something up but honestly the top two answers in this physics stack exchange do it more competently and comprehensively than I'm able

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/122540/why-are-a...

My takeaway/summary is 'AdS/CFT let's you temporarily change your space/model to make the math easier and then map it back into the original model. Although we don't currently have such a model specified for our particular observed universe, it still allows us to study functionality equivalent behavior and make some determinations over what is/isn't/could be possible'
Apologies, I knew where and how to look them up. And, seeing the list, only a few I did not know. Some I couldn't remember the abbreviation used in the tag. I just didn't have enough curiosity to actually look them up. :D