skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How slow is acceptable to you? I've been working with Communick (managed provider for Mastodon/Lemmy/Matrix) as a side project for almost five years, and my main focus for over an year, and I am yet at the point where I can barely pay the operational costs.

I kept thinking it was just a problem with my execution, but from looking around it seems that no one has managed to turn this market segment (people/companies who care about privacy and want to run their own servers but are not technical enough to run on their own) into a strong customer base.

I kept telling myself "any day now", but the bitter truth is that the majority of people simply don't care. Those that care about control will run things themselves. Those that just want to be on the alternative networks are going to look for the free instances with open registrations, and just move on when they (inevitably) crumble due to lack of support. Meanwhile, Zuckerberg will just execute on his playbook: clone the competitors on the innovative parts for Threads and use FB's size to make ActivityPub into something that favors them so that they can become the AWS of social media.
In C, you can sizeof() a string constant?
At this point "fascist" is more of an insult than an ideology, very few people who get called "fascist" ever actually live up to any reasonable definition of the word.
Worthless is greatly exaggerating imho. I learned quite a bit from these courses even though they were far from optimal.
> So whats changed?

Gentrification of the Internet by smartphone-wielding normies who were neither prepared nor equipped to deal with the established cyberspace social norms that differed from their meatspace counterparts, as massive corporations rushed to get as many people Online as possible, as fast as possible, so as to target them with advertisements and accumulate and sell their data. Once said gentrifying normies outnumbered the "Internet natives", the "New Internet Culture" subsumed nearly all of the "Old Internet Culture", leaving us where we are today.
How can we do better than trust? Trust arises from information gaps, and there is no way to close all gaps of information for a single person. One human can't know everything
I think you are missing the point that this is the way you get equal numbers of men and women applying. Mechanical engineering is currently 90/10 in the US. It takes extraordinary measures to create change and change is a pendulum. You can't ride the break to make it not go past equilibrium, you have to push it further past so that it will eventually move in the direction you want. If you want more women applying, give them role models that are engineers. Make them aware of the profession their whole life, not at an 11th grade career fair.

This kind of perspective strikes me as "not fair". What percentage of qualified candidates don't get into Harvard because rich legacies get in? Are you just as outraged at that? I also seen no proof that the women admitted are incapable of the work. At these top schools, lots of highly qualified students don't get in for random reasons and test scores and grades are not a great predictor of career success. As in most things, you get what you optimize for and Caltech is optimizing for more women graduates.
I spent some time digging into Cassowary around 2019, so I can't recall much, but here's a link to the seminal paper: https://constraints.cs.washington.edu/solvers/cassowary-toch...
It seems like there is actually some affirmative action for men going on at Caltech, the exact opposite of what he claimed. Check out the acceptance rates, it’s double for men

https://www.clarkecollegeinsight.com/blog/how-to-get-into-ca...
Why Do We Model? Mecha, Miniatures, and Historical Imagining
The mechanism is a clever application of quines (self-reproducing programs), first explained in the classic lecture “Reflections on Trusting Trust” by Ken Thompson:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/358198.358210

Russ Cox obtained the actual code for Thompson’s compiler backdoor and presented it here:

https://research.swtch.com/nih
I'm curious how you reached this conclusion. The same method for storing these reactors during operation is the best method for disposal of waste. Unless you are storing your reactor in an aquifer, a containment breach would be bolstered by thousands of feet of rock and concrete well casing. This is infinitely preferable to a vessel breach on the surface which will contaminate both air and water sources.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_borehole_disposal#:~:text....
YC, and VC in general, is just one path to build a product. There are others. I don't apply to YC with any of my ideas not because of any lack of quality to the idea or its potential scale, but simply because I'm an old, slow, peaceful type of person... and not the slightest match for the startup culture. That doesn't invalidate my ideas in any way - it just changes my approach.

Sounds like you want a different approach as well. I'd say don't fret over YC/VC, and instead go forth to bootstrap and enjoy a more sustainable pace to life. Don't "go big or go home" -- instead "go small and stay home."
Spam is a real problem, but when your platform is doing things like disallowing linking to a NY Post article on the Hunter Biden laptop or mentioning the possibility that COVID originated from a lab-leak, then I think pretty clearly the term "censorship" is more apt than "moderation".

Also, to the extent that a platform is surfacing content based on a friend or follow model, then that itself is intrinsically sufficient moderation for the spam problem (because you can simply unfriend or unfollow spam accounts).

(Spam friend requests and follows still need to be addressed, however.)
At least according to surveys and other stats, women are far more reluctant to date down than men.
"g" is a measure of narrow set of skills and job performance outcomes that favor western developed society. It's not an observable, it's an inferred value. It makes sense that people good at math and reading are going to perform well in jobs that involve math and reading. And people without access to good schooling or even textbooks are going to have worse performance.

I don't think it's appropriate to measure intelligence as a correlation between the few things a statistician cares about, personally. It would be a naively meritocratic view to think performing well at the highest paying jobs is a decent measure for intelligence.
USAF F-16 Pilot explains why[..]he'd Rather Fly the F-35 in combat than the F-22
Liability and the recent CrowdStrike patch fiasco.
Japan is an island, which can be blockaded, so they’ve always tried to help their farmers. Usually they pay the farmers to grow less, not pay them to grow nothing. Also this policy was phased out in 2018; now they’re just subsidizing farmers and encouraging crop diversity. I think they’re doing a good job. Being a farmer is always hard. In Japan at least they’re making it easier. Encouraging crop diversity and organic farming is nice (especially compared to the us corn/soy situation).
When you throw a balloon of colored water at a wall, the impression it makes on the wall is called a splat. Say you have a function which takes a point in 3d and outputs a density value which goes to zero as you move away to infinity from the from the functions location (mean) like a bell curve (literally), and you throw (project) that function to plane (your camera film), you get a splat.

Note: I've made some simplifying assumption in the above explanation.
Zuckerberg is pretending to be on MAGA's side so that he can assist whatever next phase of the agenda is intended for Trump's next term in office. Of course, if MAGA could pick out people who are only pretending to be on their side they wouldn't be supporting Trump in the first place.
Getting “ Error establishing a database connection”.
The actual medical field has these debates just fine without reddit or facebook or twitter. By using evidence and peer review. The people having their covid debate on reddit probably don’t work in the field and their opinion is therefore inactionable, unqualified, and moot.
Agree, Zuck has zero integrity and I think he sees the tea leaves in where things are headed in November and is trying to say he was bullied into making alot of disastrous decisions that he and he only ordered for an administration/party that he personally donated $400M+ to.
Primordial black holes do not require new fundamental physics, but for them to constitute the primary component of dark matter would require a revision, at some level, of our narrative of the history of the universe. This gets a bit outside of my core knowledge, but as it stands there aren't any super solid mechanisms for generating black holes of a plausible mass distribution, early in the universe, such that we would see what we see today.

But, IMO, this is worthy of more study both theoretically and experimentally. An update to the evolution of the universe would be awesome!
Recruiters would probably love constant churn, but their employers would not.
Also there are way more women applying, to the point where you’re more than double as likely to get in as a man than as a woman. There’s a huge argument about this but no one actually looked up the data for some reason:
https://www.clarkecollegeinsight.com/blog/how-to-get-into-ca...
Regarding pricing: we we charge at a per-model basis -- so the workflow when you're ready to retool your line, send us the CAD and we'll send you the defect detector model and the bill. We're still working out if there's some sort of "enterprise tier" for folks like CMs who are flipping through molds almost as quickly as it takes to heat up/cool down a machine

Pricing is custom and is a dependent on a few key factors like what your quality tolerances are.

In, say, the disc golfing space, you can have wildly different acceptance rates for flashing around the rim of the disc at a manufacturer-by-manufacturer basis
It is not. It is producing a two tier market. "As of January 2024, India was the world's largest rice exporter, shipping 16.5 million metric tons of rice. India's rice is known for its quality and aroma, and is shipped to many countries, including varieties like Basmati and non-Basmati. India's rice exports support millions of farmers and help the country's economy. " And India and Tialand are benefitting.
No, it's still censorship even if the government doesn't do it. It's just not a violation of the 1st amendment in that case.
The site is down, so I can’t read the article, but how is “wasted” defined in the context of these articles?

As corporate consulting America has a tendency to call any project, no matter how speculative, wasted if it didn’t succeed.
I mean, there are videos from when Siri was launched [1] with folks at Apple calling it intelligent and proudly demonstrating that if you asked it whether you need a raincoat, it would check the weather forecast and give you an answer - demonstrating conceptual understanding, not just responding to a 'weather' keyword. With senior folk saying "I've been in the AI field a long time, and this still blows me away."

So there's direct evidence of Apple insiders thinking Siri was pretty great.

Of course we could assume Apple insiders realised Siri was an underwhelming product, even if there's no video evidence. Perhaps the product is evidence enough?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpGJNPShzRc
I think it’s simpler than that. People here tend to enjoy, and have careers around, understanding complex systems. “Consideration” for rich people isn’t required for thinking about the possible impacts of this, especially when the government has a near perfect track record in eventually shifting policies down to the working class.
There is no software at all, it is all hardware. These are mere abstractions because the reality offers some guarantees which allows one to transfer one system onto another as if the underlying system didn't matter. Those guarantees allows one to speak of commonalities between one stuff and another.

ref : The Universe is Hostile to Computers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaZ_RSt0KP8
> Error establishing a database connection

site appears to be down
Fresh Breeze KDE Dialog Icons
They're not concerned about the wealthy, but the state of the economy. Bad things happen when the prices of things change dramatically. E.g., if you happen to own an asset that a billionaire now needs to fire sale, you'll lose out as well.
There's always money involved. There is no awakening of inner morality. Just follow the money and you'd know why this is happening.
Cerebras Inference
Presumably those accounts are dead because of repeated rule breaking, not because their specific post in this thread broke the rules. And there might be more dead comments here on average because politics+tech draws a lot of a certain type of commenter(the type of commenter that might get banned)
And yet progress keeps moving forward. It's almost like the investors understand the risks
http://web.archive.org/web/20240826091915/https://salesforce...

Does not appear to be in archive.is
> For example kids shouldn't get depressed

This will be hand-waved away as being caused by other influences

> data should be private

Sure, it's private: we know literally everything about you down to when you use the toilet, and so do all of our data brokers and your government. But it's tied to a token, and you'd have to do a SQL join to attach that token to your name, and we put up a flyer in the break room telling people not to do that SQL join.

> widely spread information should be reasonably accurate.

There are so, so many opportunities to frame things in extremely misleading ways to drive a certain narrative and the entire social media and corporate news establishment does this. And when they get caught making stuff up, just call it a mistake and run a retraction in fine print that no one sees
edit the .sh, add `set +x` then pipe it to ts

```

$ cat > example.sh ; bash example.sh |ts

set -x

echo a

sleep 3

echo b

sleep 1

echo c

#end

+ echo a

+ sleep 3

Aug 27 09:48:02 a

+ echo b

+ sleep 1

Aug 27 09:48:05 b

+ echo c

Aug 27 09:48:06 c

```
I think it's feasible that the females were significantly more qualified than the males. The fact that going to Caltech is seemingly against the gender norm for women may actually cause them to self-select for only the most qualified and dedicated to STEM to apply. Whereas a lot more men may have applied 'just because'.

Also, women are just doing better in school right now. The average female college applicant is better than the average male college applicant. So it's not hard to imagine this it true for CalTech too.
The website is down,

> Error establishing a database connection

A bit of irony that salesforcedevops Wordpress can’t manage the traffic from HN
Assuming reasonable factoring, maintenance is only a problem when trying to seriously cheat the layers, eg your controller wants to modify the template engine’s internals for a single request. Better to just be honest about it by punching a hole in the abstraction that is appropriately named and using that.
I’m shocked; I was certain this would be different than blockchain.
So what? Pavel nicked the entire concept of Facebook from Zuckerberg.
Because it's powered by AI
>Existing nuclear reactors are already extremely safe

The perceived safety is the result of being operated by highly trained and vetted personnel 24/7/365 for decades on end.

In actual fact nuclear reactors are extremely dangerous.
I think the prestige matters. I agree with you but in the US we deliberately create bottle necks and then award people who make it through with the most powerful jobs. The powerful want to perpetuate this.

I don't think this is a healthy situation, it is creating a zero sum game and a tiny class of people whose children have an edge getting accepted. There is such a gap between the average high school student and the people who can get into high ranked schools that it's very bad for the nation's health overall.
Try The Rice Factory, a rice importer in New York state. They import prize rice from Japan, in refrigerated containers. It's a clear step up in quality from anything grown in California.
80% of AI projects crash, along with this site
Current nuclear disposal methods may be acceptable, but they are also sub-optimal.

https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-new-mexico-nuclear-dump...
Currently hugged so I can't read the article, but I can only wonder how this compares to the batting average of any given R&D effort. 20% of projects succeeding on a cutting edge technology might be pretty good, no?
Cerebras Inference: AI at Instant Speed
It's entertaining how many people online think government intelligence agencies actually care about them at all, considering the limited amount of time in the day and all the info that said agencies need to know about adversary countries and other important topics.

For 99 44/100 percent of the online outrage bait, I'm like "you're not that interesting, and they almost certainly don't care about you anyway."
When someone starts making claims, there is a tendency for those claims to become "fact" if there isn't sufficient counter-messaging.

Case in point: the idea that conservatives are somehow having their speech suppressed. This is patently false. Twitter has become 4chan. Any number of conservatives topics like anti-vaxxers, Brexit, anti-immigrant propaganda and so thrive on social media, including and especially Facebook.

Now you can argue that this isn't intentional. It's simply a result of these platforms responding to and promoting "engagement bait". There might be some truth to that but at a certain point, particularly if you're the CEO of Meta, you can't play dumb. You should know what your platform is promoting and what benefits you.

What you're seeing here is Zuckerberg is increasingly becoming aligned with the billionaire class and, by extension, the political right (eg [1]). This is the arc that leads to becoming Peter Thiel.

No one, and I mean no one with the possible exception of Noam Chomsky, is a free speech absolutist. Elon, for example, has banned people who have simply hurt his feelings (many times).

And while Zuck is sucking up Republicans in Congress, see how far you get on any of these platforms if you use words like "Gaza", "Israel", "Sde Temain" or "Palestine".

All of these big tech companies have been very successful in pushing the idea that it's "the algorithm" that upranks or downranks content, like there's no human involved. This is propaganda. Humans decide what's in the algorithm and they make those decisions based on what they want it to do.

[1]: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/mark-zuckerberg-prais...
"Presumably" ?? which ones? How do you know?
FWIW, almost every x86 computer made in the past 10 years has an on-die memory controller. The only exception is a handful of decade-old machines with "Northbridge" chips inside.
>Billions wasted

Wow gosh. Where does that money go? It just evaporates?
That quite the conspiracy theory.
There is ONE answer regardless of when the question was asked. Knowledge has a shelf life, and programming knowledge's shelf life is notoriously short.
FB actually directly pays creators of AI slop.
You react to crises by storing grain. Not by dumping it or by underproducing.
HN allows everyone with sufficient karma to vouch for dead comments (or flag comments), I suspect most of the comment-level moderation you see is crowdsourced to fellow commenters; a still-dead comment means most of those who see choose to keep it dead.

HN is awesome because of the rules and moderation (including bans); any unmoderated forum devolves into a cesspit; and it only takes a surprisingly few bad apples to ruin a community.
I doubt facial recognition is a switch turned "on", rather its vision capabilities are advanced enough that it can recognize famous faces. Why would they build in a separate facial recognition algorithm? Seems to go against the whole ethos of a single large multi-modal model that many of these companies are trying to build.
" Why has Japan been hit with rice shortages, soaring prices despite normal crops? (Answer: acreage reduction!)"

They claim to have enough.
I don't think it's feasible to address individual users.

I think a good place to start is treating the falsification of data in research studies like fraud, potentially with criminal penalties.

Another avenue is requiring social media businesses to make reasonable efforts to flag health misinformation. If Facebook et al are making billions in revenue off false information, they should have a responsibility to combat it, at the risk of penalties.
It's probably better to just link to the Rand Report:
https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA2680-1.html
This is absolutely correct, as there are no solar neutrinos with energy above ~20 MeV (but below that, the solars dominate). Thanks for the clarification.
Not to make a nitpick in your point because it's a good one, but it made me wonder:

How different would the height measure be if it were standardized like IQ? E.g., how likely would someone who is in the 90% percentile in 6th grade be in the 90% percentile as an adult? From that perspective, I imagine the standardized height "re-test" correlation is a lot less than 1.0 (although it would certainly be close to that with two measures of height as an adult).
I'll answer in reverse order.

Making synthetic data from a 3D model is really nothing too special - it's just a tiny subset of what video game engine does. But there's one extra step required for defect detection: you need to think about where the defects occur (and where the non-defect witness marks occur) and simulate those. Like any startup our biggest advantage here over the big companies is we move fast and customers usually like us. Our second biggest advantage: defect detection just isn't sexy, so it's not top of mind for most folks.

I think yes there probably should be tariffs on Chinese EVs (we're pretty big on on-shore manufacturing) but that's essentially a crutch. We'll need a lot of automation and design work to push down US-made EV cost to be competitive. If we want electrification to increase and onshoring to occur we've gotta bring prices down to something folks can easily buy that solves their problems.
complexity that the compiler removes doesn't have to be handled by the CPU at runtime
> Show some data or don't say anything.

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/10/2/gender-parity-a...

> At Caltech, there has been an average gap of 10 percentage points between the acceptance rate for male and female applicants since 2003-04. Women were accepted at more than double the rate for men for the 2022-23 school year.

It's worth noting that men have it easier time getting into liberal arts universities like Brown or Yale.

> If women self-censor (not sure how to say it in English correctly) their applications in such a way that only top women dare applying, while men don't

In my personal experience, it was actually the opposite. I self censored my application to MIT because I noticed that they rejected all the men from my high school and accepted all the women who applied, despite the men being equally or more qualified.
I'm a living disproof of your comment regarding v1. Besides that time-based versioning communicates nothing besides the release time, which is basically useless for anything except perhaps a root trust store or the tzdb.

1.3.2-alpha3 gives me so much more info than 2024.08.27, even besides that fact that YYYY.MM.DD disregards that you sometimes release the same software multiple times a day.

Why would you even care when the version is released? You care about compatibility and if it is secure (which needs to be tracked out of band anyway).
So funny. The perfect passive aggressive told you so ever.
Guess we can add this article to the 80% that crashed and burned, then.
Isn't that better than normal? It used to be 90% of startups going belly up within 3 years, and out of remaining 10%, 9% becoming zombies and 1% having a proper exit? This looks more like Pareto 80/20 which is way better.