skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you. Nice read. Even given a protective order to keep discovery confidential, the ensuing discussion about the clients lacking IT-policies that exacerbated this crisis is public.

Most entertaining would be the discussion where CrowdStrike would argue that based on common IT-risk criteria, you should never hand over the keys to an unaudited party not practicing common IT-risk best practices and (thus) the liability is on the organization. Talk about CrowdStrike managing risks worldwide. They are doing it right now!
The dot-com bubble would like to have a word with you.
I'm sure there's plenty of copyright violation in uploading a dump.

It's definitely fixed in tangible form, so it's just a matter of what qualifies, but lots of things do.
That first video appeared on HN with some discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40422359
Venture capital's new reality check: 'people looking to get out everywhere'
Gaussian Splatting SLAM
The justification is that people are fine tuning LLMs for classification. They take out the last layer, replace it with a layer which maps to n classes instead of vocab_size, and the training data Y's aren't next word, they are a class label (I have a job which does binary classification, for example)

It's just completely wrong to say everything in LLM land is autocomplete. It's trivial and common to do the above.
> Everything sounds like it's just a bunch of hackers

Are you aware of what website you are commenting on?
To be fair, your linked post encourages ignoring packaging guidelines in linux distributions
The Himalayan Blackberry (rubus armeniacus, native to Armenia and Iran) is definitely a damaging invasive species. Even if I have picked and eaten at least a quart of its yummy fruits in the last week, I’ve also spent untold hours pulling out its damn roots. It competes with English Ivy for the most murderous in crowding out other plant life around here.
Apologies for getting my facts wrong. You are of course correct.

Re: snark - the point of HN is that we are better than that. If someone is snarky, then we shouldn't respond in kind. But I get it. It's easier to say than to do.
Vortex: A Stream-Oriented Storage Engine for Big Data Analytics [pdf]
Women absolutely would participate on a platform that is free to use and has a high enough barrier to entry that they can select out all the scrubs and they can freely get what they're after without all the mess. Have you seen online dating today? It's a dumpster for both men and women. Men get a better shot at what they want for a higher fee, women get access to men they'd actually want to meet with.

- men who can't afford that are already scratching the bottom of the barrel on dating sites and feeling like total losers because they have no prospects they're happy with

- most people would show you a picture of their butthole as long as they knew it would be kept confidential if that meant they'd have a better shot at finding what they're after

- information source aggregation, analogous to meeting people in more places than the singles bar

- wasting peoples time is an undesirable trait

- youre using an app to find sex and/or love, the interface changes nothing about this

- the last two are the same as number 2, just analytics for the algorithm.

When you're designing an algorithmic solution to mate pairing, you have to treat it like a meat market and gamify it for best results. And the current incumbents are absolutely doing that, it's just that their interests do not align with their users.
From "Show HN: WhatTheDuck – open-source, in-browser SQL on CSV files" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39836220 :

> datasette-lite can load [remote] sqlite and Parquet but not yet DuckDB (?) with Pyodide in WASM, and there's also JupyterLite as a datasette plug-in: https://github.com/simonw/datasette-lite https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=simonw https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=simonwillison.net

JSON-LD with https://schema.org/Person records with wikipedia/dbpedia RDF URIs would make it easy to query on whichever datasets can be joined on common RDFS properties like schema: :identifier and rdfs:subPropertyOf sub-properties, https://schema.org/url, :sameAs,

Plato in RDF from dbpedia:
https://dbpedia.org/page/Plato

Today there are wikipedia URLs, DOI URN URIs, shorturls in QR codes, ORCID specifically to search published :ScholarlyArticle by optional :author, and now there are W3C DIDs Decentralized Identifiers for signing, identifying, and searching of unique :Thing and skos:Concept that can be generated offline and optionally registered centrally, or centrally generated and assigned like DOIs but they're signing keys.

Given uncertainty about time intervals, plot concepts over time with charts for showing graph growth over time. Maybe philosophy skos:Concept intervals (and relations, links) from human annotations thereof and/or from LLM parsing and search snippets of Wikipedia, dbpedia RDF, wikidata RDF, and ranked Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy terminological occurrence frequency.
Enough companies made a fuss about it that I made the app for myself to save me the headache! Enough folks bought it that I think it's more of a pain than it should be
Answered in the article:

In certain places, the script was more cramped or more likely to slant as it crossed the page. She tested this observation by picking a letter that didn’t appear often and tracking it across the manuscript’s pages. Its style, she saw, varied among groups of pages but not within those groups. This suggested that the differences—larger or smaller loops, straighter or curvier crossbars, longer or shorter feet—were the product of different scribes rather than of one scribe writing the same letter in different ways.

To reduce the possibility of selection bias, Davis examined other letters and found that their styles shifted in lockstep with the first letter. After months of analysis, she concluded that even if the Voynich had a single guiding vision, it was the handiwork of five different scribes.
I recently finally rented a VPS from Hetzner, and to my pleasant surprise was done and ready with my config (shell, utils, services) in under 5 minutes. It took me longer to read about nixos-anywhere and disko in aggregate. NixOS lends itself pretty well to these kinds of magic works.
Paris Olympics 2024 medal table
They're within a tenth of a percent of peak population. It might fall a meaningful amount over time, it might not.
Traveling to Technical Events: A Guide
how does it compare to Blue Cruise on Ford vehicles?
Show HN: Simple Science – The Newest Science Explained Simply
They do care, on their Twitter they say they want to get it into Best Buy someday
It's Your Fault People Don't Like TDD
Most WoT fans skip books 4-14 when they reread them because nothing happens except a bunch of women smooth their dresses and tug on their hair.

You'll understand what I mean by this once you've read the books...

Sanderson also does a horrible job of wrapping up the series. I won't spoil it but there's a 50/50 chance that you will regret investing time in reading the series once you get to the end. This isn't entirely Sanderson's fault; he only wrote the final 3 novels based on the outline he was given by Jordan's widow. Unfortunately, Jordan did not wrap up all of the story lines in the outline and Sanderson makes not attempt to do so.
Ask HN: Homebrew, Asdf, Nix, or Other?
New Macbook Air incoming and want to find out what the hive mind recommends for a fresh machine. On the old one I used Homebrew mostly but asdf for Ruby and Python. Was always happy with Apple Terminal + Oh My zsh. What’s your setup?
It does, but only experiments who don't have a strong grounding in research methods.

Simpson's paradox is part of a broader problem: correlation does not imply causation. In practice, it's one of many problems with making decisions based on correlations.

In a randomized control trial, with a large random sample, the odds of Simpson's Paradox coming up are astronomically low.

Good statisticians WILL second-guess ANY conclusions based on post-hoc data analysis. To frame this in scientific jargon, exploratory data analysis and correlations are great at generating hypotheses, but those need to be confirmed with methods appropriate for confirmatory analysis.
One of the top aides for Fauci admitted that Fauci and he used private email addresses to do government business. He even admitted ways he would use to avoid detection from FOIA.
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been on an elimination diet for a while, because if I'm not, I get depression and suicidal ideation.

I don't have a diagnosis for arthritis, but I'm testing around a lot and maybe this info helps you in your journey:

I make gelatine from pig's feet occasionally, when I make it with just salt and some lemon or vinegar, I don't have problems.

Last time I thought, maybe try bell pepper, haven't tried for a while and I seem to do okay with capsaicin. Boy was I wrong, within a week I got horrible joint pain in the feet.

Bell peppers are seemingly high in lectin and other phyto-nutrients.

I recently found on hacker news, that I can neutralize oxolates with a pro-biotic - will try that for lectins next. Have to prepare the gut with L-Glutamine and Silicea.

God's speed!

Edit: Between ingestion and symptoms, it takes about 3-4 days
Aaprof – A Native macOS App for Pprof
You are splitting hair, Maps are effectively references.

That's like saying C++ doesn't have references since it's just a pointer being copied around
Aqua [1]!

[1]: https://aquaproj.github.io/
Have been using asdf (with Ruby and JS) for years, haven't had a reason to look for something else yet.
An Item Is Worth a Prompt: Versatile Image Editing with Disentangled Control
School worker pleads guilty to stealing $1.5M worth of chicken wings
> lmao he’s citing cinebench R15?

It's the only one where they measured the power use. I don't get to decide which tests they run. But if their method of measuring power use is going to be meaningless then the associated benchmark result might as well be too, right?

> Geekbench 6 is perfectly fine for that stuff. But that still shows apple tieing in MT and beating the pants off x86 in 1T efficiency.

It shows Apple behind by 8% in ST and 12% in MT with no power measurement for that test at all, but an Apple CPU with a higher TDP. Meanwhile the claim was that AMD hadn't even caught up on the same process, which isn't true.

> x86 1T boosts being silly is where the real problem comes from. But if they don’t throw 30-35w at a single thread they lose horribly.

They don't use 30-35W for a single thread on mobile CPUs. The average for the HX 370 from a set of mostly-threaded benchmarks was 20W when you actually measure the power consumption of the CPU:

https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-ryzen-ai-9-hx-370/13

On single-threaded tests like PyBench the average was 10W:

https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-ryzen-ai-9-hx-370/9

34W was the max across all tests, presumably the configured TDP for that system, derived from the tests like compiling LLVM that max out arbitrarily many cores.
Blitz: A lightweight, modular, extensible web renderer
I live in a very hot location, and I also happen to like going for long runs. I've long known, if I took my dog with me on my run, it would kill him. Even though he's a fit young dog, there's no way he can handle the heat at running pace for that length of time.
QEMU most likely is not required. OpenBSD's installer is inside a single 4.5 MiB [1] ramdisk kernel image. Chainload or netboot it, or download the ramdisk to ffs on sd0 and run installboot [2]. Once the ramdisk kernel is loaded you can erase the disk containing it.

1. https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.5/amd64/bsd.rd

2. installboot also needs /usr/mdec/biosboot and /usr/mdec/boot from base75.tgz.
A desert isn't that much of an advantage. If you see a major focus on deserts, it's because transmission lines aren't all that expensive.
How many of those accomplishments were truly his, I wonder ?
https://social.treehouse.systems/@marcan/109561314682149814
You can literally manufacture things by hand. What CO2 is being emitted by someone who makes furniture from wood with hand tools?

Large scale factory equipment will, of course, run on electricity, but electricity can be generated from solar/wind/nuclear/hydro.
- "Datasette Enrichments: a new plugin framework for augmenting your data" (2023) by row with asyncio and optionally httpx: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Dec/1/datasette-enrichments/
> Last year, a major meta-analysis that re-examined 107 studies over 40 years came to the conclusion that no amount of alcohol improves health

Very politically correct conclusion statement and yet it's heavily attacked by the lobbyists. Imagine what will be the lobbyists response if the conclusion statement is that any amount of alcohol deteriorate health.
> Do traffic lights protect the flow of traffic, or do they protect people? It seems reductive to fixate on traffic lights stopping intersecting flows of traffic, when the intent is to ultimately protect people from slamming into (and thus injuring/killing) each other.

Had the author of the article weighed in, then yes: They protect the flow of traffic, people, an int, pretty much anything!

> Similarly, it seems odd to me to suggest that a mutex protects code -- what is it protecting that code from?

It is protecting the code from simultaneous execution. The burden of protecting the data still falls on the programmer.

Mutexes literally appear so in the code. They wrap sections of imperative statements, or methods. They don't wrap data, eg:

Mutex<Int> myInt;

> Controlling something isn't the same as protecting that something. A traffic light controls traffic

Great example. Drivers die in intersections. The cause is driver inattention. The traffic lights don't lose their licence.

I only asked it as a question because others could hypothetically point out that Go mutexes can protect data (and NOT via metaphor) - maybe I missed something!
I'm afraid the only remaining option is to wear a backpack 24/7 and reenact your favorite inventory management RPG.
C++ is a live language, C# has out parameters.... there's stuff out there.

The classic example of "pass by copy-reference is less expressive" is you can't have pass a reference to number and have the caller modify it. You have to explicitly box it. I understand you understand this, but it's worth considering when thinking about whether the distinction means absolutely nothing at all.
I don't have a feel for the numbers, but does that hold true for aluminium and Australian bauxite exports?

Hmmm now I'm curious - google google google.

Refining bauxite into aluminium increases the price about 12 times from $40/ton for bauxite to about $2,700 per tone for aluminium which requires 5 tons of bauxite as an input.

Australia exports about 40,000kt of bauxite a year.
It requires about 15 kWh/kg to refine aluminium from bauxite.

So if we refined all that bauxite into aluminium before exporting it, we'd use about 600GWh of electricity to turn $1.6 billion worth of bauxite into $220 billion worth of aluminium. (And the economics is better than that, because there's only be 8 million tons or stuff to export instead of 40 million tons.)

Surely that extra 218 billion a year would be way better (for Australia) staying in our economy instead of having all that bauxite refined somewhere else?

On the other hand...

Sun Cable reckons it'll deliver 1.7GW to Singapore 24x7, or 15,000GWh. So refining _all_ the bauxite would only use 4% of that.

Australia generates about 280TWh of electricity over a year. So refining _all_ the bauxite would use only 0.2% of that.

So no. It sure as hell doesn't use "a lot of power", even if people do refer to aluminium as "solid electricity"...

That was a fun rabbit hole.

(Disclaimer: no effort made to verify numbers some of which were sourced directly from DuckDuckGo search response page snippets. Also, I'm notorious for dropping three orders of magnitude when doing mental math using kilo/mega/giga/tera prefixes.)
A Dictionary of Color Combinations – Wada Sanzo
Wow, THIS is the answer, thanks for the reminder!! Now I’m off to see how they feel about web scrapers…
I will try to be objective here and give them a bit of a reality check, they tried to reinvent the “VC”, tried to reinvent the vibe of SV company but at some point they seem to have lost the ball.

They pioneered the idea of end to end learning for self driving, they were talking about it seriously earlier than most and yet Tesla got a hang of it and within a year Tesla has released a fantastic e2e model miles ahead of whatever comma released. Tesla’s model is that good, I can see it becoming a robo taxi.

I can’t help but think that if they weren’t fixated on bootstrapping, shippable intermediaries etc etc, they could have been what Tesla is now. What if they actually tried to scale? It would have been off the vibe they are going for, but if they went the standard route and raised say 500M+ which is reasonable in this space, bought a ton of GPU’s, hired a bunch of ML superstars, hired a bunch of drivers to collect data, they could have already been leading against FSD. Of course whether they actually could have raised enough capital to do all this, is a hypothetical but it would have given them a fighting chance.

Then they tried to reinvent hiring, create good PR’s, solve challenges, they said which sounds like a good idea only if you’ve never tried to scale a company. When you’re a small startup, this may be a good way to sift through candidates but if you want to play in the big leagues this is a naive no go.

First off, most superstar candidates probably have not heard of you or even if they did wouldn’t be bothered to do your challenges, PR’s (god forbid microinternship etc). You need recruiters and head hunter to go after them, go to their universities, actively seek them out. Then you also need a reason for them to join when Anthropic is offering 600k to new hires, no one will choose comma ai in comparison. (Which is why you really need to scale, scale, scale to be able to afford them). Even if you offered them higher salaries, it’s still hard to hire them, you need a nexus of existing talent, a few well known names initially which will convince them to join. This will inevitably lead to some bad hires, some over hiring since you won’t be literally vetting them to a micro internship etc, but you can let them go quickly once you identify them. This will also lead to some redundancy. Having just 21 engineers is not a good thing, when the competition is literally running away with your product. There is a tendency to become too big like say cruise with 800+, but aim to at least have a 100+ , your organization speed will ramp up, and the product can defend against competition much more quickly.

TLDR; Comma for some reason acted allergic to scaling, when a traditional scaling route could have done them wonders. Now it might be too late. I also find it ironic that the best car on the streets right now is a Waymo, I took it through China Town SF no issues and this was the company Comma spent so much time shitting on. Apparently you could just scale up traditional robotics and solve robotaxis (whether it will ever become a profitable business, jury is still out)
Gustavo is one of the best math and programming teachers out there imo. I am currently taking the Playstation course and it's so much fun.
Relyvrio was ALS drug.

I don't think any HIV vaccines have gotten to phase III yet.
Consider this, I've responded to an ill considered disrespectful one liner with a wealth of information about glass.

At no point did I claim that rare earth in glass was a bottleneck to solar panel manufacture, glass only arose as doping glass for specific properties is one of the many reasons why we process rare earth materials at all.
Interesting - this looks like Beransa[1] (Librela) which is a monthly injection for canines that have osteoarthritis. My dog did not have any noticeable changes to pain after using this for 2 months so I've decided to take him off of it.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedinvetmab
I am hesitant to use this, it appears to be basically unmaintained

https://github.com/cloudflare/boringtun/issues/344

https://github.com/cloudflare/boringtun/issues/407
That’s what it does, and that’s wrong. Unspecified properties are not equivalent to 0.

Example of code that this tool breaks:

p {
margin: 10px;
}
aside p {
margin-left: 0;
margin-right: 0;
}

This is turned into `aside p {margin: 0}` and that’s not what the authored CSS meant at all.
I think the concern is not XSS but rather trusting the first party developer of the binary that hosts the webview.
Video-chatting (Zoom / Teams) / calling while walking around at home.

And previously I had issues that when my phone roamed from AP1 -> AP2 that the call had a hickup.

I fixed it by getting some more expensive equipment that supports fast roaming so I don't have the issue anymore.

Maybe the author is describing when switching from Network A to Network B, or from Wi-Fi to cellular.
I sort of achieved this by 1) creating a separate profile for a web app, 2) create a Desktop File which points to that profile, with a `--class` option set to the app's name. It seems that the logins are staying for as long as the website allows.

The caveat is that the `--class` option doesn't seem to always be reliable; sometimes the window still gets grouped with the normal firefox instances in the task bar. I haven't got around to find out whether it's the fault of firefox or kwin.
Hamel Husein had this great slide in a recent Youtube video where he compared human raters of LLM outputs. He pointed out a peculiarity, where it looked like there wasn't improvement between pipeline versions but it was actually because the raters themselves began to have higher expectations over time.

The same output in week 0 was rated as a 7. After 6 weeks of rating LLM outputs, especially as the pipeline improved them, was a lower score later.
Show HN: Stock Exchange of Creators
Update: Please check this updated thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41221312

I added the incorrect domain to the URL field. Its exponent.club.

tldr: Been working on Exponent, a stock exchange app of creators, on the side for sometime, and launched yesterday! Would love to get your opinions, thoughts and feedback, ama! PS: Initial app load might take some time.

Exponent is a stock exchange platform of creators where creators can raise capital from their followers in exchange for tradable digital assets/shares. Works like a typical stock market, IPOs and trading (no web3, no crypto, no nft).

Mission is to enable creators (selectively) to leverage their follower base and raise capital for their brands/ventures/big budget long term projects.

We launched with the fantasy app yesterday. Based on feedback in the private beta, realised that a fantasy app will help people understand this new asset class and overall concept without hesitation of putting real money into this platform. Will be launching the real money app soon!

You can check out the application, subscribe to the first creator IPO (IPO closes in 15 days) and also suggest creators that you'd like to see on Exponent.

Cheers! ♥
Basically Active Desktop applications from Windows 98, Symbian Web Runtime, or WinJS apps on Windows 8, no thanks.

I used to like them as much as I like Electron apps.