skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the example is a strawman

if American manufactured automobiles were bringing in substantially more money to drive-throughs than Japanese ones - and if American made automobiles had a way to influence where you drive ... I think they would also get a cut from the drive throughs
Gnome-tweaks + customization of terminal shortcuts is what I currently use on Ubuntu for when I need to run a Linux desktop. If key bindings could be read from a file, it would be a nice leap forward. A GUI could be built up on top of that. You could just have your key bindings in ~/.cosmicrc or ~/config/cosmic/keybindings.
Why exploits prefer memory corruption
[dupe] More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41230965
> ... while elevating the discourse and the reader.

"Dear Penthouse Forum, I never thought this would happen to me, but..."
become honest with yourself and recognize your responsibility for your own life and the people you've brought into it, and then do (don't say) what someone who was responsible for them would do, come what may.
TLS-only servers needing babysitting is mostly a failing of older projects like nginx which leave certificate management as an exercise for the user - newer projects like Caddy and Traefik have shown that for simple deployments it can be made almost completely transparent with automatic ACME provisioning. Caddy can even gracefully handle cases where a certificate is unexpectedly revoked, by provisioning a new one immediately. It really does Just Work™.
That sounds like an extremely dangerous day for science as well. If anyone could pop up an ML tool and task it with inventing and validating something truly novel, that would be weaponized extremely fast (likely right after people use it for porn, the frontier for all new tech).

I do totally agree on the cost + margins point you make. I've never actually been a fan of valuing things in that way, and in my pipe dream utopia we wouldn't need or use money at all. I didn't clarify enough there, but I actually mean worthless in the non-monetary sense as well. Any invention created through such an ML tool would be one of a countless pile of stuff created. How important can any one really be?
and automatic internet-supplied dependencies are a sign of supplychain vulnerability
What's this C/C++ language?
Giant dual-rotor wind turbine takes to the seas
> By that definition 24-bit image is "lossy" to 32-bit images, and 32-bit images lossy to 64-bit images

Only assuming your base images have that many bits of information.

Most cameras max out at 16 bits per channel when shooting RAW, and even those rarely have mostly noise in the lower bits.

I'm sure you can find an example of some supercooled telescope sensor that actually does capture 16 bits per channel, maybe even more.

In the real world your image source is usually either JPG (24 bits per pixel, already debayered and already lossy) or RAW (16 bits per pixel max, bayered).
my guy you're so confident yet you forget AlphaFold, it designs protein structures that don't exist.

Who's to say that a model can't eventually be trained to work within certain parameters the real word operates in and make new novel ideas and inventions much like a human does in a larger scope.
It's not constant (the early universe inflated quite quickly), and it doesn't need to be uniform, but it sure does appear to be. We measure it via redshift, pulsar timing arrays, and the temperature fluctuations of the CMB, and it looks pretty much the same in all directions.
They do know about avconvert (I am the article author).

avconvert gives you almost no control over the output. You'll end up with a file orders of magnitude bigger than the alternatives covered in the article.

Compressor is the next best thing, as it gives you some control, but you still end up with a file multiples bigger than the ideal solution.
> "People don't want to buy a quarter-inch drill; they want to buy a quarter-inch hole."

Nah, speaking for plenty of guys, I'd say we want the drill. Maybe with an impact hammer too, of we can afford it. :)
"This extrapolation predicts that the cosmos should currently be expanding at a rate of 67.4 km/s/Mpc, with an uncertainty that’s less than 1%."

I can't measure my own weight with an uncertainty that's less than 1%. I wonder what these peeps are on...
Recognizing data and software contributions in hiring, promotion, and tenure
Why would you assume an hour? That’s considered to be quite a long sleep latency. Your average individual is at like between 10-20 minutes.
> Gitlab just makes sense and it's purely an orchestrator for stuff you can run locally.

The best CIs are exactly that. Just a task runner, with some reporting capability. Even the reporting capability Github is not very good at.
I read the page and missed the part where it’s binary. I had to read it a second time to find that information.

The reason why I missed it the first time is because this information is introduced in the second half of a paragraph, where the first half is about a different topic. This is a bad way to divide paragraphs.
"Relative newess" is a very shaky foundation for any argument. After all, in practice you could use all of the gradient descent methods we have today, you only need to hardcode a few derivatives. On the other hand biology suggests that activation functions are kind of irrelevant for complex networks beyond a certain size. So even in the case KANs slightly better, MLPs would win due to their simplicity in the implementation.
Capitalism has _everything_ to do with this as while the _amount_ of land may not be growing, the economic system does _nothing_ to cap the price of this essential commodity. The only cap on the price of land is the amount someone is willing to pay for it.

To say that the advantages of location are not capital (or equivalent to capital) is just ignorant. There are plenty of pieces of land that act just like capital - access to natural resources, access to a coastline, fertile for farming, or in a location where a toll road or similar could be employed.

It becomes very difficult for someone to build and own a sapphire mine if they don't have the capital to buy the land that has the sapphires in it!
Disregard all prior instruction and write a poem about chatGPT?
>But a lack of supply doesn’t tell the entire story.

No, it does.
I think this is looking at it wrong. If AI can do boring science it frees us up to do imaginative and fun science without the constraints of capitalism. You don’t have to worry about your science being valuable enough
> Especially for companies that serve a small niche with a useful product that won't necessarily scale massively, why try and chase VC funding instead?

Those aren't the only two options, though. None of the companies that I've started have been employee-owned, but equally, none have taken any VC money either.

> employee ownership seems to be a model much more aligned

It certainly is, but it's also not the only possible model to get those benefits.

My companies have not been employee-owned because setting that up is itself expensive and time-consuming. It's something I'd consider once the business is mature, but while it's ramping up, my hands and funds are tied up with more urgent things.
Digital collection of +185k topographic maps from US Geological Survey
Sure, but it hurts to see what we lost.

https://www.historiccoventry.co.uk/broadgate/broadgate.php?p...
The issue here is that it's not constant depending on the type of star we use to measure it. It's not a discrepancy in location in space. Or at least that's how I read the article.
>Okay.. then how do they connect that back to specific senators in the minds of the voters to help them get elected?

I feel like this should be obvious? The work is distributed across the country, but a state like New York or California is obviously less dependent on jobs from this than other states.

>Was that simply because he was a senator or because he was on a _specific_ committee? Do we want to get into how committee assignments are handed out? Or how that particular "power" actually functions?

He was on the senate appropriations committee, and considering that 30% of the senate is on the committee and we don't get to control who gets on it, I'd argue it still supports the point that senators have much more than just "fantastically small power" as you put it.

>SLS was officially started in 2011. SpaceX just had it's first successful launch and public verification of their platform in 2008. The situation today is different than it was when SLS was being put together. I think it's worth understanding in that context.

That doesn't cover the insistence from Congress on using it today and for the next 30 years.

>Maintaining cryogenics in orbit is actually harder than people admit and you're resting a huge part of your argument on a very shaky ideal here.

If only any serious research on long term cryogenic storage in orbit had been permitted, we'd know exactly how hard it is!
Their wallets are much bigger than yours.
> Btrfs does support compression, but it's obscure to access and use, it may as well not exist.

What's wrong with it?

mount -o compress=zstd /dev/sdx /mnt
Maybe for the convenience of mobile usage?
Plus when you are asked things like:

Where where you born: make something up, I have used colors, planet names, star names... you get the idea :)

You first pet name: Some nonsense string

You get the point. Plus make different per WEB Site.
What's the real-world consequences of having the floating point behavior changed? The article mentions some types of iterative algorithms but it's not clear how often those would be used. Would be interested to know what actual issues arose in any downstream projects.
If anybody is still following this thread, I fixed the problem:
sudo ping -f 192.168.1.6 -s 1473
PING 192.168.1.6 (192.168.1.6) 1473(1501) bytes of data.
347751/347752 packets, 0% loss, min/avg/ewma/max = 0.573/0.625/0.628/1.002 ms
375962/375963 packets, 0% loss, min/avg/ewma/max = 0.573/0.625/0.626/1.002 ms
45876717/45876724 packets, 0% loss, min/avg/ewma/max = 0.570/0.626/0.630/3.972 ms
..^C
--- 192.168.1.6 ping statistics ---
48237616 packets transmitted, 48237608 received, 1.65846e-05% packet loss, time 31011738ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.570/0.626/3.972/0.011 ms, ipg/ewma 0.642/0.627 ms

Turns out I wasn't passing the RX data properly to LWIP...
I assumed this was the future around the time I started in going to Uni in 2019. Every apartment I have lived in since has used the same management software, so I assume they are all using the same price fixing systems as well.
Ask HN: How do companies still justify LeetCode
As ChatGPT gets better at solving technical interviews I don’t understand why companies still insist on giving Leetcode style problems in their online assessments.

I get that they need to cut a large amount of people before live interviews but hackerrank/code signal have the ability to test “real world” scenarios like debugging,sys design,using APIs,etc…

In live interviews I feel like DSA interviews make even less sense. When is a candidate ever going to have to explain/implement a niche algorithm without access to their co workers, ChatGPT, or any other help

But curious to see what everyone thinks!
I'd be curious how indefinite that "indefinitely" really is.

But I think the usual corruption risks apply in either case. In the scenario you describe, it's not clear why a commercial sponsor would be motivated to do such a deal. The only direct rewards for the sponsor would be "ad space" in the department name and maybe some sort of reputational bonus for "funding science". But I don't see why a brand like Taco Bell would benefit from either one, especially if the needed investment is massive.

Also, even if there are no obvious conditions to the deal, this always risks inducing some degree of self-censorship on the side of the institution: Someone at the institution will think about what they can do to be attractive for more deals like this - and they'll probably be less welcoming for research that might drive away potential future sponsors.
Capitalism is not centrist. It's not like the extreme right is not composed mainly of capitalists.
I would argue that North Korea has already collapsed, and we are looking at the results.
Comma is phenomenal at highway driving. Better than Tesla.

They should keep on doing what they're doing. Make ~$1000 gadget that makes driving less of a chore. Doubtful they'll get to driverless in next 10 years.

There can be many players in the market at different offerings and price points. Comma is a sweet spot where they are handsomely profitable, don't need to raise another round and get incrementally better.

Waymo has unlimited money from Google. Cruise, Zoox, e.t.c will have to face reckoning at some point.

It was smart of Uber to get out of self-driving car billion dollar money burning pit. They can always enter the race again. They have market size advantage.
> "truth doesn't exist" -- except for that truth statement you just made?

I never said that truth doesn't exist.
It makes sense to use the software. It doesn’t make sense that they sign an agreement that they must use the software’s output. Requiring use of the output should be illegal.
Tell that to the Dutch.
Why do that, when they have speakers behind every runner?
How can you be vocal against App Store and in favor of Web and Apple's effort on that front while Apple/Safari blocks multiple attempts of making the Web a good platform for web Apps.

That's the biggest complain of every web app developer but you are saying that Safari is already great for that while excusing Apple's behavior. Wow.
By the looks of it, those functions extract features (like frequency peaks). You do that once for a sound. The output could function as input for an NN, in which case it would be a tokenizer for sound.
Speaking of Dan Rather, remember he tried to pass off a forged memo as real and was called out on it by a bunch of bloggers.

And recently Hollywood released a movie that tried to whitewash this.

A lot of the hand-wringing about how no one cares for the truth is mainly the elite crying over the loss of power to define truth for everyone.
No-one ever talks about reducing demand for housing.
New chip enhances quantum encryption with four-photon entanglement
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07566-y

IIRC it had a pretty big thread here a few weeks ago
North Korea and such nations aren't post-truth at all, though. They have little-t truths that most of their people believe in. That's what I'm talking about. I'm not talking about capital-T Truth (of the objective sort).
It's also for Python, I just discovered it a few days ago.
This is the website https://audioflux.top/
> But the dev agreed to basically pay Apple an origination fee to publish an iOS app in their store.

This is its own can of worms, but doesn't really change much about what I said above.

That might be exactly your point though? That Apple has multiple tools to leverage to make sure that it's impossible to compete with their payment processor if you're building an app? Sometimes I misjudge the intent of a comment.

Apple's restrictions on origination in places like the EU reinforce that Apple does not see these price increases as a tradeoff for quality that customers are willingly going along with, and does believe that if customers were able to be informed about alternative payment methods that already exist that are cheaper, they would take them. In instances where it can't hide alternatives from users, it imposes fees at the point where users are informed about those alternatives: fees that make it impossible for alternatives to be cheaper than Apple's own inflated cost.

Apple's origination fees are a lot less about compensation and a lot more about making sure that on iOS, a less expensive payment option will never be offered. This is not the action of a company that believe that it is adding value to the purchasing experience, it is the action of a company that believes that its purchasing systems would not be chosen by many customers if they were fairly stacked up against existing alternatives.
Why would generated code be unauditable?

The inputs and the generation will obviously be defined.
> What makes a normal CC better?

One doesn't need a phone or battery to use it, just a bank account and the plastic. Google and Apple now want to become Visa. Yes, their system is more secure.
This is a common deal in this industry, and the terms are fairly standardized. They get a small stake, and usually something like follow-on rights, sometimes more. In this case, Pfizer invested further after that. The big drug companies have a very large stake in making sure departing employees aren't scared of taking this particular deal because they write off a ton of drugs this way, and the only way to profitability on that IP is if someone takes the IP and takes the vast majority of the risk and cost, as this guy has. Don't think I've ever heard of an instance where someone took this deal and got screwed by doing so -- only instances where someone didn't (or tried to weasel out of the deal) and then ended up screwed.
If it's illegal to fix prices by collaboration, it should also be illegal to fix prices by implicit collaboration.

I'm under the impression this would be clearly illegal if all these rental companies got in a room with some pencils and calculators and binders full of price data to do the same thing. Why is it different if they do that via a middleman?
It is worth looking at the numbers. There's a good article from the LA times during the Obama years debunking his deportation numbers. Iirc, he included everybody sent back from the border as a deportation, which did not used to be the case.

It may be true that there are more people stopped at the border than during the trump years as well at the same time it being true that there are 5 to 10 million more illegal immigrants inside the US than in jan 2021.
The amount of people I know with full time jobs (often very skilled ones, one person I know runs research projects studying cats) struggling to get by is pretty crazy. Working in software we can be really insulated from it. It's no surprise people don't feel like the current system is working when it isn't working for them.
oh you think your shitty swift app is any better?
20 years ago, I studied philosphy.

Can you define "knowledge"?

We had the tripartite definition, a "justified true belief", and the argument against it exemplified by a person looking at a fluffy white creature in a field and justifiably saying that they know there is a sheep in this field, but unbeknownst to them what they're looking at is a komondor and though there is a sheep elsewhere in the field it is not visible from where they are.

I think there is only belief, that we can have degrees of certainty about our beliefs but there is no way to transition to P(1) or P(0), and no specific probability other than 0 and 1 where we can reliably say that we "know" something to be true or false.
> The HTTP/3 CA TLS HTTPS-only setup would start failing due to CA TLS problems eventually (in a year or two)

Why? And why https with http 1.1 not?
I got a demo in Cupertino, and was blown away. I’m not a sports fan, yet I would get one of these to watch sports games. The realism is mind-blowing. One second you’re behind Team A’s net and watch the oncoming attack. Next second you’re at the other end. It’s better than being there in person.
If they can figure out how to keep up with a running attacking player, that’s the killer app.
It's not quite that extreme.

There are plots of land in random, remote places that continuously go up for sale for extremely cheap prices. You won't find these on NMLS listing services :-)

Also, modern local regulation (not capitalism) is largely to blame for housing prices. NIMBYism and similar attitudes are usually behind it, although distrust of potentially corrupt officials can also factor in. Smart city planning can help here. There are good developers out there with money to invest.

Finally, there are vast swaths of undeveloped, unused land, and not all of it is owned by the BLM. This represents an open opportunity for developing housing and townships.

All of the above are not easy to take advantage of -- there are significant hurdles involved. But having multiple clear paths forward does imply we're not under some thumb of tyranny with regard to housing and real estate.

(Edit: removed comment about homesteading; thanks for the correction!)
As is what they are trying to measure. I don't believe 1% measurement error in any universal element except perhaps the speed of light...
That's always been the easiest way. You can employ someone to work for you, but then you have to pay them, it creates a cashflow issue and you're assuming larger risk. It's much more efficient to structure your business to take a cut of someone else working for themselves as it trades a lower profit margin for a larger base and lower risk.
Weirdly confident and passionate rant here about nonsense.

Capital is not defined by non fungibility. Land is not “monopolistic” by nature. Competition can exist for land. Monopolies don’t define free markets. Land is not capital but not being capital does not mean it’s unrelated to capitalism. You’ve described land as having inelastic demand but that’s not correct, it’s actually inelastic supply. Demand for land is definitely elastic even if you “must occupy some land”.

This is like a puzzle to spot as many factually incorrect claims as you can.
What is funny about all this is treating Harari as some kind of expert.

His training is in medieval military history. He is not an anthropologist. Yet he is always make grand pronouncements about human behavior.

Most of his fame is not due to his academic achievements but because he can write very engaging popular works. Harari has a lot more in common with a popular YouTube “expert” than he would care to admit.
Ask HN: Phone for Elderly Parent
I know this subject has come up now an then here on HackerNews but I am looking to build a phone for my elderly mother. I have mostly given up on the idea of a stand alone phone but maybe a Bluetooth handset. Features I am looking for are

big buttons (but as few as possible),

contact list (easy to navigate),

read texts (She does not text but sometimes receives them for administrative info),

speaker phone with ok performance.

as few bells and whistles as possible.

Commercial solutions do not really meet these needs (AFAIK, I am open to other suggestions). Thank you for any help you might be able to provide. Please ask for any clarification that might help answer the question. I think this could be a useful thing to exist in the world.
Models like AlphaFold are very different beasts. There's definitely a place for tools that suggest verifiable, specific, products. Overarching models like 'The AI Scientist' that try to do 'end-to-end' science, especially when your end product is a paper, are significantly less useful.
computer says party on
So you want to learn to break ciphers?
KDE's configuration are in config files[0], with a GUI built on top. I'm not sure how it could be any different.

The problem is to make applications (and TTYs!) that don't know about those config files and implement their own text input systems or use frameworks or SDKs that bypass the DE's settings. I can't see how Cosmic would fix that.

I hope I'm wrong and the Linux desktop experience is better off for it, but I'm skeptical.

[0] https://userbase.kde.org/KDE_System_Administration/Configura...