skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very well written post with some great formatting/pacing, but I think they’re overselling the novelty of the central point for blog reasons. To cut to the quick:

Taste is some combination of design, user experience, and emotional resonance that defines how a product connects with people and aligns with their values and identity.

That definition certainly captures taste, but I think it’s far too large of a net. UX and design are engineering, specifically the field of HCI in this case, and it’s been important at least since Google beat Yahoo with its minimalist UX.

In other, more direct words: at no point in Silicon Valley could you “hire the best engineers and stand back”, YC has been emphasizing ephemeral stuff like PMF, team culture, and user-centric design since the jump.

I’m quite biased, but I think the question of “what is taste” needs to draw on philosophy for answers, at the very least to put a new theory in opposition to the old ones. There’s literally 2000y of aesthetics work in western philosophy to draw from, after all!

As a Kantian, the core of the answer is simple: beauty is unmotivated pleasure endowed with a sense of objective validity. See https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant-aesthetics/#WhatJudg... This helps us with the current question in a couple ways.

First, it teaches us why UX wouldn’t normally be considered aesthetic, since it’s often quite instrumental.

More importantly, it reminds us that it’s not enough to appeal to some particular audience’s particular tastes, but that you must also present something they see as objectively or universally beautiful. Hacker types love their complex toolbars and cottagecore Etsy witches love their goofy fonts, but I think both groups recognize those preferences as personal. A truly tasteful website is one that brings joys in the little universal ways — the “juice”, as I recently learned it’s called in the game design world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_feel

Thanks for posting! Definitely thought provoking, and I absolutely agree with the motivating point, if not the phrasing.
As long as you stay out of the "defaults" and "anaconda" repos, you're not subject to that license. For my needs conda-forge and bioconda have everything. I'm not sure about the nvidia repo but I assume it's similar.
The difference between LLMs and other kinds of predictive models, or humans, is that those kinds of systems do not produce their output one token at a time, but all in one go, so their error basically stays constant. LeCun's argument is that LLM error increases with every cycle of appending a token to the last cycle's output. That's very specific to LLMs (or, well, to LLM-based chatbots to be more precise).

>> part of an agents architecture will be for it to minimize e and then ground the prediction loop against a reality check.

The problem is that web-scale LLMs can only realistically be trained to maximise the probability of the next token in a sequence, but not the factuality, correctness, truthfullness, etc of the entire sequence. That's because web-scale data is not annotated with such properties. So they can't do a "reality check" because they don't know what "reality" is, only what text looks like.

The paper above uses an "oracle" instead, meaning they have a labelled dataset of correct answers. They can only train their RL approach because they have this source of truth. This kind of approach just doesn't scale as well as predicting the next token. It's really a supervised learning approach hiding behind RL.
Read: https://opus-codec.org/demo/opus-1.5/
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Pretty wild to love someone who does what they believe in regardless of how insane it is.
Kagi boosters:Google articles::SEO spam:Google searches
If you want to argue about distances then let’s talk about Europe as a wider entity rather than just one country. And Europe still comes out on top for quality of infrastructure.

The problem with the NHS is due to the amount of budget cuts from the Tory government.

The problem with the American health system is the exact opposite, it costs too much because private entities are greedy. Government intervention would be more legislative than financial.
I believe that 99% of the time, a reuse of older technologies results in greater innovation that is more stable and a return is multiple of the underlying foundations.

This applies here as well. Typescript could go a long way.

But admittedly, writing a grammar, parser and then a whole compiler along with its tooling of a new DSL is fun for sure but does look good on CV as well.

I didn't say anything more than that.
More generally Microsoft treated Typescript as a product - they built it based on feedback from outside users and worked hard to make it easily adoptable and to grow a community around it. They are also "pragmatic" - willing to have weird, unsound semantics if it's needed to help people adopt Typescript and model existing JS ecosystem patterns.

Flow has always been an inwardly-focused project that is for Facebook's needs first. The Flow team at FB made an explicit decision to focus more on compiler performance improvements (what Facebook's usage needed) over outside users & community.
Second Reality Demo for Commander X16 [video]
Isn't OpenAPI specific to REST? The page also mentions protobuf, for example. Being able to generate clients and servers for those things might be useful, although how well it integrates with the client/server technologies will be the hard bit.
I really couldn’t enjoy this book because the biotech stuff was so stupid… Stephenson is usually spot on with his hard scifi, but in this case I think he trusted some friends to advise him, and they didn’t know as much biology as he thought they did.
That is not a UPS.
Three Mile Island nuclear plant restart in Microsoft AI power deal: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41601443
That’s an interesting idea. I wonder whether it would actually lead to radically different solutions, bit with bigger codebooks.
>Absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence.

It kinda is when you're talking about public health epidemics though. There would be a ton of hospitalizations reported if a substantial number of people were getting it, which we don't currently see.
Thanks for the reply! I think I disagree with you, mostly because it seems like this particular bug could have been company-destroying because of the potential reputation hit if it was exploited on a wide scale.

But regardless, I appreciate your perspective and it gives me some stuff to consider I hadn't previously.
Ironically, that would help the privacy concerns since it would intermingle all traffic in their analytics system. Win-win!
Why yes we do =]

https://docs.magicrail.io/helpers/city-suggest
Pennsylvania is becoming new hot spot for hyperscalers
>Would it end up in the waste water eventually even if it was only going around in birds?

It's coming from cows, they produce a lot of waste water.
>FTA Three Mile Island, the site of worst nuclear disaster in the United States, is reopening and will exclusively sell the power to Microsoft as the company searches for energy sources to fuel its AI ambitions.

is it ironically appropriate the the worst American disaster of the nuclear age will now be connnected, literally, to the looming disaster of the AI singularity? Well, if so, let's hope this next disaster will be of the same magnitude as the last one; from the article's linked article:

"In 1979, the plant experienced the partial meltdown of one of its two reactors. Though there’s no indication the release of radiation caused any health issues among either employees or the general public, the incident led to stricter federal oversight of nuclear power plants."
What are the YouTube talks? Did you have a specific one in mind?
There’s a lot of misunderstandings around repressing and how useful it is. Basically what we’re doing actually makes a lot of sense even if it might not seem that way.

What matters for current reactors is u-235 which is largely consumed by nuclear reactors where the vast majority of extractable uranium in spent fuel is u-238 already considered a waste product “depleted uranium” cheap enough to use for ammunition.

There’s value in extracting a short lived products from a small percentage of spent fuel for use in medicine etc, but in general if you want to do repressing waiting 100+ years makes everything cheaper. As such even if we eventually do reprocessing using dry cask storage until natural uranium runs low is a useful approach.
You forgot about the third option: specify "stable" and properly documented API boundaries in relevant subsystems. Developers of Rust drivers would have to rely only on those APIs, in turn, if subsystem maintainers want to change those APIs, they would have to synchronize it with Rust developers.

The problem is that some subsystem maintainers do not want to even properly document existing APIs (sic!) and want to reserve the right to willy-nilly hack some changes into "their" subsystems without discussing it with other stakeholders.
More detailed/sourced recent HN comment on these tariffs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41394506

I don't know anything myself but thought it interesting. I guess it's the sort of news neither political side sees an advantage in propagating.
You have an invalid assumption that extra power is spent on better compression or decompression. It generally takes less energy to decompress a better-compressed file, because the decompression work is mostly proportional to the file size. Energy for compression varies greatly depending on codec and settings, but JPEG XL is among the fastest (cheapest) ones to compress.

Secondly, you have an invalid assumption that the amounts of energy spent on compression have any real-world significance. Phones can take thousands of photos when working off a tiny battery, and most of it is spent on the screen. My rough calculation is that taking over a million photos takes less energy than there is in a gallon of gas.

Apart form that, compression cost is generally completely ignored, because files are created only once, but viewed (decompressed) many many times over.

Smaller files save storage space. Storage has costs in energy and hardware.

Smaller files are quicker to transfer, and transfer itself can be more energy intensive than compression. It's still small in absolute numbers.
> Create a new TypeSpec project

> Run the following command in a clean directory to create a new TypeSpec project.

> tsp init

> This will prompt you with a few questions. Pick the Generic REST API template...

I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as REST, is, in fact, JSON/RPC, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, JSON plus RPC. JSON is not a hypermedia unto itself, but rather a simple data format made useful by out of band information often specified with tools such as your TypeSpec project or similar.

Many computer users work with a canonical version of REST every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of REST which is widely used today is often called “The Web”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the REST-ful architecture, defined by Roy Fielding.

There really is a REST, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of The Web they use. REST is the network architecture: hypermedia encodes the state of resources for hypermedia clients. JSON is an essential part of Single Page Applications, but is useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete API specification. JSON is normally used in combination with SPA libraries: the whole system is basically RPC with JSON added, or JSON/RPC. All these so-called “REST-ful” APIs are really JSON plus RPC.
I'm really curious about who "most folks" you refer to are; no one in my extended family does this normally, and I don't know of any friends or neighbors who do it either (we all microwave a snack here and there, sometimes a meal, but it's not how we habitually feed ourselves and our families).
Socialism and communism are easily defined by Marx's 10 Planks.

In terms of raising the standard of living, those are all standard terms and metrics. In terms of causation, money earned by people gets spent by them to raise their standard of living. Don't let people who want to control you pull the wool over your eyes and start thinking that giving them all your money and power means they would make things better for you. They won't. They never have. Those are true facts.

For more on the underlying concept of liberty vs. statism and why only the former can deliver any kind of results, I highly recommend Ayn Rand's short essay called, A Textbook of Americanism [0].

[0] https://fee.org/resources/textbook-of-americanism/
Search for anything at the very bottom of the page. It takes you to a more powerful search page with date filters.
If the government is going after anyone who connects to an unknown IP Tor isn’t safe either
How often are people hand-writing OpenAPI specs? At least in my experience, such specs are generated from some "authoritative" implementation. This looks like it aims to move the contract-y bits into something less verbose than OpenAPI and less tied to a specific implementation.
> I chose to expect the worst from your somewhat-ambiguous statement

Yeah, I noticed that too. Not that my feelings are hurt or anything, but you might end up in friendlier and more productive discussions if you try to stick to the HN guidelines, which includes:

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Not just to ruin a fun joke with silly facts, but key parts of VS Code predated Atom.
Yeah the punishment in Tanzania for homosexuality is only life imprisonment, while only 10% of the population reports being tolerant of someone with a different orientation -one of the lowest in Africa- while the countries largest city tortured gay people in 2019 as part of its persecution of them, no big deal (sarcasm)

At some point we should say they are deeply hostile to the large and well respected portion of the python community who are queer, if they want to exclude them for who they are then we can also decide not to run a pycon there.
I’d assume you’d have at least a few bit flips occur in the process.
Adam Sandler?
Best example I've seen is wanting to optimize a frontend JS for loop that gets triggered maximally only once per page load, runs max 100 times in a loop with complicated data structures that will confuse any reader of that code why it was done like this and not just with a for loop.
The proof of the Turing Completeness Theorem in action. Beautiful. Boot time is ~5 days.
https://www.funraniumlabs.com/2024/04/choose-your-own-radiat... Is a nice overview of the various other fuel disposal solutions. Worth reading for the section on reprocessing alone. How big of a superfund site do we want to create?
I wish they included the datasets they used for the evaluations. As far as I can tell, in appendix II they include some sample questions, answers, and golden chunks but they do not give the entire dataset or give an explicit information on exactly what the datasets are.

Does anyone know if the datasets they used for the evaluation are publicly available or if they give more information on the datasets than what's in appendix II?

There are standard publically available datasets for this type of evaluation, like MTEB (https://github.com/embeddings-benchmark/mteb). I wonder how this technique does on the MTEB dataset.
I just added an extra image where you can see contours being drawn around the 'pits' of the CD-ROM. I need to improve the speed of the autofocus etc. before I can image a whole CD heh.
Valentine's products basically came onto the market at the same time as radar guns. He was right there at the cutting edge reverse engineering new technology.

And regardless of how you feel about the legality now, "speeding" was also a new concept at the time. There was no consistent federal speed limit rules. There were rules about pedestrian safety and reckless driving, and there were periods of gas conservation rules during WWII. But there was not a strong moral basis to stay under a certain speed on a motorway.

Valentine was in every way a hacker. The radar detector is right up there with the Wifi Pineapple and Flipper Zero.
Non ping-ponging lane following assist is already available in many cars including KIA and Hyundai models. They're very conservative and disengage very easily. I think it's by design to minimise their legal accountability
That's more like it. However, if I can be picky, sketchy company that advertises it as being suitable for medical equipment when it's almost certainly not certified for such a use is a bit of a red flag for me (company contact info is "dobest021@sina.com").
Amazon hiring nuclear data center engineers
An excellent example of Array API usage can be found in scikit-learn. Estimators written in NumPy are now operable on various backends courtesy of Array API compatible libraries such as CuPy and PyTorch.

https://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/array_api.html

Disclosure: I'm a CuPy maintainer.
>“what if the sun and wind stop simultaneously for 2 months?”

Anything alive after that wouldn't be human and wouldn't be worried about electricity.
I will never install a non-recommended extension. Extensions have all the permissions. Only takes one sellout developer to compromise your security.

Which is why we now have ublock origin.
Show HN: Private Messages for Hacker News Users
Hello HN,

motivated by meet.hn[1], i've built hn-pm.me, a platform just for Hacker News users to exchange direkt messages.
(There is no official relation between my site and HN)

My main motivation were two users talking about that some meet.hn users didn't provide any means of contact information. Maybe they didn't want to be contacted, maybe they didn't want to share any of their social media profiles.

That's why i built hn-pm.me, where you can register only with your HN username and _a_ password (not your HN password!) and start receiving messages from other HN users. Passwords are safely encrypted with bcrypt.

You can only register an account with your HN username! During the registration steps you have to put a code into your public HN about section to prove ownership of the provided username. You can simply remove this code after registration. Maybe put something like https://hn-pm.me/users/shreddit/message in your about section so other users can see you are available for pm. There is also a search function (for registered users) to search for other users.

You don't want to receive messages from random HN users? You can set your message preferences to "friends only". Now only users you have approved a "friend request" can message you.

- The "design" is heavily inspired by HN itself

- there is no JS on the frontend

- completely SSR

- built with astrojs[2]

- you can reset your password by just registering again.

Feel free to message me on https://hn-pm.me

PS: Yes, a ".hn" domain was too expensive.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41539125

[2] https://astro.build/
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There are some very big outlier exceptions to this however. In a handful of markets (such as the city of Riverside) which are served by a nonprofit municipal power authority with its own generation and distribution, local rates are decoupled from the crises plaguing PGE (and to a lesser extent SDGE, etc).

residential power costs are substantially lower for customers in these areas vs their immediate neighbors - out-of-pocket power bills are as little as half or a third of for-profit statewide utilities for the same sustained consumption during peak usage times.
And someone built a spreadsheet with Electric Clojure

https://github.com/lumberdev/tesserae
Also in the news today:

Microsoft paying $100/MWh to restart Three Mile Island nuclear power plant:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41601443
Solving problems like this is why God made front-of-house managers. Ask for one - politely, and with clarity that you're not blaming your server or indeed anyone individually for anything - behave yourself like a grownup in the resulting conversation, and it's amazing how well things can go.

I know, I know, the Karen stereotype. But that isn't about conversations on the quality of service; it's about nominal adults behaving shamefully childish in public. Median American public behavior, especially in restaurants, sets a bar so shockingly low that anyone capable of disciplining their emotions in the slightest degree easily excels it.
Gaslighting is not simply someone sharing a different perspective than you. It requires an ongoing relationship with dependencies, and orchestration. By using the term for simple situations like this, you are minimizing what actual gaslighting entails, and how destructive it can be for someone's psyche.

https://time.com/6262891/psychology-terms-misused-gaslightin...

How are you reading my comment as something where I make you doubt your perception? Can we not simply disagree, and share our different perspectives? Can we not hold different opinions about things, even concurrently, in our minds? I can unfold, and explain my position more, if you're interested. This is a place of discussion, after all. How would you say should I describe my opinion so you don't receive it as gaslighting?

I did not mean to imply that the emotional manipulation is not "valid". I was trying to say that it can be handled in a way where the person with the problem, which is the person consciously or unconsciously trying to employ manipulation (likely because they were raised like that) can be provided with an opportunity to learn and grow. We all were raised more or less in manipulative ways, so we all are carrying it inside. A relationship can be the place to heal it, if both partners want to do that.

It's not the gadget that enables abuse. Abusers will find whatever "tools" and situations to do that. This was my point. A hammer is a hammer, and it's not the hammer's fault if someone uses it to smash in my head.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karpman_drama_triangle
I downvoted both of your comments because I think it's rude and insulting to assume the motivation of someone's work is self-aggrandizing, and to dismiss out of hand the work might be motivated by technical needs because you can't immediately recognize those needs. I find the attitude frustrating, similar to the other common HN dismissal of "I could build it in a weekend".
AI Safety Is a Global Public Good
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>To discredit capitalism is not necessarily to credit communism.

For most people a non-capitalist system is necessarily socialist/communist. So the response is apt for most situations.

> there is only a choice between 'capitalism' and 'communism' is a false dichotomy.

I fully agree, there are nuances that are not considered in what is traditionally defined as communism/socialism/capitalism.

But it's important to note that most people understand things only in black and white, and never the shades of gray.
Particularly the multicopter is mass produced, cheap, mature and easy to buy and use.
Has to be worse than that. 20 is still way too many degrees of separation if every region operated on a hub and spoke model.

I would imagine we're seeing two to four groupings of sequential routes which are subsidized access. A floatplane which hits every island in the archipelago, like a bus route, before reaching the international airport with jets. Likewise with bush planes in Arctic villages, and regional turboprops that hit a sequence of rural airports because they only attract a few passengers a day on their entire route.
Title is incorrect, I went for horror stories and all I got was unsolicited advice. Here's a couple classic horror stories for anyone like me:

https://www.ecb.torontomu.ca/~elf/hack/recovery.html

https://www.toddheberlein.com/blog/2014/4/16/how-rm-rf-almos...
Ask an LLM to help.