skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It’s ok-ish to pull up on Watch after you’ve set it up on your phone, but without a phone, Watch is much more limited, IME.

Don't you normally still have a phone nearby and synced to the watch? I don't think I know anyone that uses a smart watch in lieu of a phone, just as an accessory that keeps them from having to pull out their phone.
This is how you destroy your hinge.
To answer my own question: potassium rhodizonate mixed with glacial vinegar creates a visual test for lead.

I assume that I could grind up the food, test the slurry and then maybe do a more in depth test involving putting the food in a kiln and testing the ash for lead (assuming you use temps low enough to not vaporize the lead, below 1750C).
You don't seriously expect me to argue your position for you, do you? If you want to convince someone that such a law would be beneficial, feel free to stop sealioning and start making actual arguments.
My main desktop has two separate nvme drives in it, one with just Windows, one with just Linux (Pop). I haven't booted my windows drive but twice in the past couple years though, and need to reinstall (insiders build kept too long between updates). Most things just work in Steam.

I've got a mini pc coming this weekend with the intent to run ChimeraOS for a livingroom/emulation computer. I have other computers around doing other things.
Most interesting sentence:

> 304 stainless steel isn’t normally magnetic, but it becomes partially ferromagnetic if it’s bent at room temperature.

Anyone have a lay-person explanation for this?
I appreciate your suggestion of the recursive acronym, ASF Software Foundation.
Is this basically about giving us an alternate prompt-based user-interface to Excel and other applications?
A closely related technique for debugging optimization passes is that of "optimization fuel". Each rewrite decreases the fuel by one, and when the fuel is gone no more rewrites happen. You can then perform binary search on the optimization fuel to find a specific rewrite instance that breaks things.
https://blog.nativesintech.org/apache-appropriation/

To be blunt, I think the arguments in this blog post are very weak. First of all, they completely fail to demonstrate how the name of ASF has any actual material impact on native peoples. Regardless of that glaring flaw, this piece focuses on the issue of respect for Apache culture and history. Framed another way, their thesis is that using the name of a nation for something unrelated is disrespectful, especially because this nation has suffered historical injustice.

There are a couple ironies about this argument. One being that the ASF is a widely respected organization with noble efforts. They chose the name Apache because of admirable aspects of that peoples past. This leads to positive feelings and respectfulness toward the Apache people. Another irony is their claim that a name should be off-limits for other uses or by other people is exclusionary, entitled, and childish, which paints the Apache as a people who deserve less respect.

The last thing I'll say is that their entire section about romanticization is just strange. In what world is attributing (even falsely) positive attributes to a nation/people a bad thing? They have a problem because it isn't dynamic enough? But why does historical memory have to be dynamic in the first place? I fail to see what is inherently virtuous about accurately deconstructing every topic all the time.
self driving cars and transformers not good enough for you?
Giving a down vote costs you 2 (or more?) of your own votes.

As the very least, down votes should require a comment. Even "false", "not true" or "disagree" would help.

My sense is, there's a network of HN users who attempt to manipulate the exposure of ideas by downvoting them (to the point those comments aren't even exposed).

Don't get me wrong, there are comments that deserve DV'ing. Moi? I can't be bothered. I just scroll on. But for those who aspire to be the HN police - especially then it's at the option (not fact) level - they should have to pay for that privilege.
1h audio of 1983 speech and Q&A responses, digitized from cassette in 2012, http://lifelibertytech.com/2012/10/02/the-lost-steve-jobs-sp...

Is there more video than the few minutes in OP?
Pure wavelengths are on the horseshoe-shaped outline of the CIE 1931 space. The straight line connecting the ends of the horseshoe is the line of purples, which also isn't monochromatic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromaticity#/media/File:Planc...
Groq’s rate limits are so bad they’re only good enough for one person using it very rarely with an under 4k context size. It’s just a marketing stunt at the moment.
AI is overpowering efforts to catch child predators, experts warn
You're saying Google's long work in AI, Quantum Computing, etc... are not trying to be innovative? Their researchers certainly put out a lot of influential papers.

https://research.google/
Where have you been for 15 years?
I've built some very small and simple systems in AWS Lambda such as email newsletter scripts. With a system like that I can get close to 100% reliability, never worry about the server crashing or overloading. My RSS reader answers webhooks with Lambda -- some of these systems have been cruising for years without maintenance.
There is an insane amount of innovation happening at Google and Microsoft et al. The amount of investment going into efforts like making data centers more power efficient, making better cooling systems, reducing latency or using fiber more efficiently etc is incredible and rivals the work done at Bell Labs back in the day. You just don’t hear about it because these private companies have no incentive to share it.

And that’s entirely separate from the fact that Generative AI wouldn’t even be a thing if not for the research that Google published.
That moment the higher education took a HUGE swandive into the empty cement pond, is when their admission no longer relies on SAT/ACT.

Soon, LSAT and others to follow.

It is like the state no longer demanding an occupational license, leaving consumers rudderless in getting quality workman.

I for one will only be checkibg for medical degrees that have SAT and MCAT admission in force policy. This act only disservice those hardworking and legitimate grads.

https://www.inspiraadvantage.com/blog/medical-schools-that-d...
how much are you paying them?
Uhh, this is a paper about how to compress spreadsheet data to fit inside an LLM’s token limits, including such novel approaches as ignoring exact values of numbers, meaning of data types, and any context outside of a detected table of values.

The paper doesn’t speak at all to actual uses of this approach, but that doesn’t stop the article writer from assuming this is probably a big step towards automated tools that analyze spreadsheet data for non-numerically inclined users.

This is not that.
@ludicity 's head is going to explode.
A time machine.

These places (Xerox Parc is the other obvious example) existed because recent breakthroughs opened up the possibilities and they exploited almost inevitable inventions.

I think the mistake is thinking that the flurry of creation is linked to the company or the institution rather than the general state of progress.

As soon as someone invents viable Human-Machine Interfaces or whatever there will be some company that invents a load of seminal stuff around that.
They could theoretically add a headphone port to this and a bluetooth to headphone adapter. I don't think the chips for that take up much space at all.
I wanted an affordable handheld supercomputer in the 1970s, and I finally got one! They are making new real estate, but it's not for sale yet.

https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/aerial-view-isaac-hale-bea...
People genuinely have no idea how much information is out there about them. Not just from hacks but from “legitimate” sources like data brokers.

Part of me thinks it would be a service for some newspaper to just publish a searchable website of all of it, so people can really feel the impact of it. It would be impossible to ignore. Or maybe just the info for all politicians in Washington.

Of course, this would enable all of the bottom-feeding scammers to get it too, so it would probably do more harm than good.
that sounds ridiculous. there's no way that could ever happen. what are you on‽
Sure, but is causing a little damage to a tiny part of the body acceptable? Exposure levels and durations -- common sense would suggest those are going up with people using more devices for more time every day.

I was not inclined to believe this whole radiation business for such reasons too -- "it's one study", "if it were so bad this would make front-page of the NYT", "entire labs of scientists and governments cannot be lying about this", "it's non-ionizing radiation, that's why it's safe you idiot!" etc.

What made me look a little deeper was Huberman's AMA on EMF. It's become fashionable to dunk on him now but it gave me a pause in that I began to wonder if there might be some merit to this after all.

Ultimately, this is like assessing the evidence for any other controversial topic -- unless you're working in R&D on radiation yourself, individual retail consumers of research like us can rely on the published evidence only to a certain extent. Beyond that, it's your priors, risk thresholds and heuristics for who to trust that will determine what you believe.
Should be pretty straight forward to modify the code, just look for key presses of R, T, Y, U, D, F, G, H, J, V, B, and N.
> And then to further extend, why pay the supermarket when I can just grow vegetables at home?

Because I can't?

I live in a building on a dense urban area. There's not enough space in my home to grow the necessary amount of vegetables.
Just because the ASF's officers won't go to jail for changing the name doesn't mean there aren't any legal ramifications. Trademarks are a legal issue, for starters. Defending the Foundation's trademarks is a big part of what goes on, even if most of that work is done quietly and non-confrontationally.

Technical issues would involve for example the apache.org domain, and all the security issues from decades worth of links pointing to it.
> Tables aren't even deprecated. IMO you're better off keeping the tables than transforming it into <div> soup.

I wonder if any notable sites still use tables even for complicated things such as, say, nested comment threads?
I have not claimed that all scientific work is good or valid.

The post I responded to said: “given the shameless plague of fraudulent papers, and the gaming of citations, my faith in experts and scientists has been damaged.” I picked a bone with that given the total lack of evidence for the claim. More generally I have a problem with a broader class of people who make claims like this, since I find these claims unlikely and unjustified.

You came back to me with a different question: “how do we know that all science is good?” I genuinely don’t know how to answer that question. And bluntly, I think it would be incredibly hard to answer it: the question is up there with “how many grains of sand are there on the world’s beaches.” I do think that clearly science, in whatever state it is in, has historically worked amazingly well. The world we live in is a testament to that. Maybe the answer is that it doesn’t matter, that ecience has always been mediocre and yet we go to space and cure diseases with even low-quality science.

A more general answer is that everyone doing science is working incredibly hard to find the answers to hard questions. We are always doing so imperfectly, with imperfect methods and imperfect tools and imperfect brains and yet we soldier on. If you want to join this effort, either to further it or bring evidence to criticize and improve it, we are all excited to have you. But simply posing impossible-to-answer questions is not necessarily doing either thing.
Liquid oxygen is magnetic too (I think para in this case)
Serverless enforces good architectural practices and is just fine for at least 80% of systems. By "just fine" I mean it leaves room for growth, puts you on a good architecture, and will have reasonable cost.

There are times though when serverless may not be a good idea:

- Atypical technology stack. If the stack you need, and actually need, isn't accounted for then you're on your own.

- Continuous, 24x7 application load. You'll have to do the cost analysis, but you may find you're better off provisioning a server.

- You want to "lift and shift" existing assets into the cloud.

Brand-new, greenfield project? Consider serverless first.
IIRC, the VT-525 could do color text, but not graphics.
You're using "all the insane theories" as a blatant straw man. Of course the cacophonous social media industrial complex generated endless rage bait. The fact that most of it was noise doesn't indicate much. We wouldn't say that a priori criticism of the philosophies of Clinton or Biden had no merit due to being amongst stories about how they're literal lizards.

The main overarching themes of criticism were that Trump had an autocratic mentality, looked up to dictators, appeased foreign interests, would paralyze federal agencies, and wouldn't be quick to step away from power. Those dynamics actually did end up playing out, with things like just standing by while China destroyed Hong Kong a few decades early, race riots were inflamed by a federal rejection of law and order, divisive anti-leadership during Covid, and culminating in what is hard to explain as anything other than a coup attempt when his poor performance cost him the election. Even being a libertarian (and highly sympathetic to many of the issues he was building support by paying lip service to), given that we all take the US/USG-led western order for granted for our generally high standard of living, and given that China (and its junior partner Russia) have been all too happy to step into any power vacuums made by our missteps, I'm highly inclined to not pull the threads of western civilization any further.
Haven't been able to find a deletion opt out for Red Violet specifically, but google did turn up this portal for one of their subsidiaries:

https://www.ididata.com/deletion-request/
Tax law would also have to change: https://pro.bloombergtax.com/insights/federal-tax/rd-tax-cre....
Literally just watched an internal talk about this topic at work (Microsoft). Lots of cool internal research to make things better in every domain, but as you said, it won't be shared that much.

The Open Compute Project is great though, and MSR does awesome research across many domains too, as does Alphabet.
Claude is a LLM chat bot. You can ask it general knowledge questions, document summarization, creative tasks and for general conversation.
Logic programming is overrated, at least for logic puzzles (2013)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36154011
People should report this company to California’s Office of the Attorney General, it should not be operating in California without respecting CCPA (and they cannot require a basis for your removal under CCPA).
But they can be picked up with right kind of electromagnetic arrangement[0].

[0]. https://youtu.be/7ZeBWJLRXqM&t=1231
> "It would still cause me a great deal of thought, but I think my answer now is it would be very difficult to leave my partner, to leave my people, for that amount of time, because it would be far more than a year," she said.

If we do long distance human space exploration, it will likely have to be as a community, where people can have long term relationships with pair bonding and sexual relations.
having money is a sign of being productive, on the whole
Author here :)

I’m sorry this article felt that way. My intention was not so much saying that you cannot be in touch with that human side if you’re not a parent. It was more about celebrating the good parts of parenting when it comes to how they change you.

That said, I can understand how this could be seen how you shared it, thank you for your thoughts!
Yes, the trillion dollar market cap businesses got to where they are by focusing on short term shareholder profit (what does that even mean?) and dividends.

Nvidia famously did not play the long game. Nor did Apple with their smartphone bet, or Amazon with their 10+ years of near zero profit margins while building a nationwide logistics network. Or Alphabet with their data centers, plowing billions into YouTube to give access to streaming HD video on demand around the world.
http://webdatacommons.org/
It well may be the safest country in Europe, provided you shut your mouth instead of talking much about important matters.
I think many of the discussion threads here can be summed up as 'you can't tell me what to do' but they don't acknowledge that when people live together everything done, or not done, impacts them all. Appropriate infrastructure planning and implementation isn't socialism or communism, it is just practical. I think this thread in general has answered my initial 'why' in spades.
Didn't high top marginal tax rates in the 1960s-1970s era give a lot of corporations an incentive to put profits back into R & D as it would avoid high taxation on those profits (and I think the R & D outlay was a tax writeoff, too). E.g.

https://slate.com/business/2012/07/xerox-parc-and-bell-labs-...
This "bicycle for the mind" guy died way sooner because of woo-woo bullshit magical thinking. He was an overprivileged marketer who had a better than average sense of what people would like, combined a shameless capacity to crib others' notes. Like most venerated billionaires, his main genius was his capacity to exploit.
I run 3 IBM 4381's with Hercules (and two Altair Z80 machines, with SimH) out of a Docker Swarm cluster of four RPi Zero W's mounted inside an Ikea picture frame.
Ideologically I agree about the absurdity of school-mandated spy- and crapware. However, my fierce hatred of advertisements and trackers is merely a personality quirk. A quirk that, although mainstream on this forum, is shared only by a tiny percentage of the population. Should a parent force their eccentricities on a child? Preferably not. Children, once they reach a certain age, are their own people with their own preferences and aspirations. For many people (that includes adults) staying in touch with others through facebook or other social media is what they desire more than anything else. Isolating people like that from their friends and peers is cruel.
In the last 24h my PiHole blocked 6500 queries. Maybe I don’t catch some first party analytics, but I am sure catching loads of other things.
What always surprises me on the ham world is the huge number of possibilities. Beside having voice QSO in HF or VHF, there are many other options: QRP and SOTA/POTA, digital modes, DYI antennas and radios, SDR, EME, identifying unknown and misterious signal, etc.

What I don't like about the communities is that is mostly composed by grey hairs guy that are not really opened to change.
>I feel like the most popular pre-app wide popular usage would’ve been the Ke$ha song.

Agreed, a lot of the alternative usages that people are mentioning seem fake and I don't recall any of them being a thing. The only usage I recall being widespread was people saying tick tock to tell you to hurry up implying that the hands of a clock are moving. That and the little known novel from the 80's about a sentient murderous robot.
Well, consider another analogy: a person leaves their door unlocked and another person goes in their home. It is still trespassing, even though the physical barrier has been intentionally disabled.

I'm not sure even what section of US code to check but it is certainly plausible that you can (for example) find a surplus device that decodes the signals on EBay and it's actually illegal to do it. You can find radios on EBay that broadcast on bands that are unlawful to use (or unlawful without certain licenses, &c).
Except Llama 3 8b is a significant improvement over llama 2, which was basically so terrible that there was a whole community building fine tunes that are better than what the multi billion dollar company can do using a much smaller budget. With llama 3 8b things have shifted towards there being much less community fine-tunes that actually beat it. The fact that Mistral AI can still build models that beat it, means the company isn't falling too far behind a significantly better equipped competitor.

What's more irritating is that they decided to do quantization aware training for fp8. int8 quantization results in an imperceptible loss of quality that is difficult to pick up in benchmarks. They should have gone for something more aggressive like 4-bit, where quantization leads to a significant loss in quality.
Is Software Eating the World?
The "eggshells" comment is, I think, indicative.

HN used to be a place where you could read a post from a position that you disagreed with, and still learn something. Posts had more thought and more interesting points. Users had more tolerance for those who disagreed with them. Those who disagreed had more thoughtful reasons for why they disagreed - it wasn't just "is not".

You can't fix that by changing the code. The problem is the users have changed.

HN has more users now. First, that means that the old users are in the minority, if they stuck around. Second, it means that HN has become a more useful platform for ideological battle, and therefore that more ideological battle gets pushed here, even though it's completely against the intent of the site.

And, maybe, some of the old users have changed, too - become more sharp and less tolerant.

I don't think you can fix HN without first fixing society. I wish I had a more optimistic answer.
Show HN is for getting feedback on your own work, take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
I don't think I understand that demo. It shows him using some built-in workflow thing (which isn't generally considered a core part of a spreadsheet) and then asks some LLM about the total price (I guess asking it to do math, which LLM's are notoriously bad at), but instead it looks like he gets some responses telling him what the term "total price" means, in prose that doesn't fit in the cells.

What was i supposed to take away from that demo?
Yeah, that's super slimy.
> "You are rolling out of your room and you are at work," she said.

I know that feeling.
> for people secretly working on it to pretend it wasn’t a new product category

Ah, someone earlier posted a link to a youtube of it, but for the life of me I couldn't figure out why they had used it, I had assumed maybe the interface needed work still or something. I didn't realize it was just to keep people from realizing it was a watch, that's kind of brilliant.
What happened in 2009?
It means they don't want anyone releasing much stronger models then they do or they will undercut you by 1 magnitude and out perform you by 5%. Hardly a recipe for long-term consumer benefit.
"streaming" in this case is like another reply said: transcriptions appear as I talk. Compared to not-streaming in which the service waits for silence, then processes the captured speech, then returns some transcription.

Is your Flutter library available? And does it run locally? I'm looking for a good Flutter streaming (in the sense above) speech recognition library. vosk looks good, but it's lacking some configurability such as selecting audio source.
Yup, it's hard to fault the postal service when the game is rigged against them from congress.
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In my opinion this depends on your goals, motivations and probably your level of exposure.

Serverless or serverful any will get the job done.
They did quantization aware training for fp8 so you won't get any benefits from using more than 12GB of RAM for the parameters. What you might be using more RAM is the much bigger context window.