skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> equivocating "targeted" with "killed".

Who's equivocating? 3000 combatants were targeted, 12 civilians were killed.

Where's the equivocation?

> War crimes on one side don't excuse war crimes on the other, and criticizing Israel for an indiscriminate attack does not imply accepting all, or even any, of Hezbollah's attacks as "acceptable".

Targeting enemy combatants does not in any way satisfy the criteria for "indiscriminate".

There was no "indiscriminate", there was no "mass casualties".
Crushing Castlevania with Antithesis
Thinking about it, I bet you can prove this is the topology. If the graph is generally densely connected (almost all nodes have 3+ destinations) then the diameter can't be that high compared to the size of the graph. Proof left to the reader. So either there are chains like described above at the edges, or there's a chain like that separating two parts of the graph (suppose there was only one route connecting the US to Europe, and it stopped in Newfoundland, Keflavik and Shannon). The last possibility is obviously nonsense, though, we know that major airports are densely connected.
I was being polite and shading towards this common interpretation HN has of academic PR, the article contains a quite lengthy technical description.
The US government did a study on highway safety impacts from radar detectors in 1988[1]. While they were able to determine that the presence of a radar detector increased aberrant braking, none of that aberrant braking caused a collision or seemed to be inherently unsafe to other drivers, and also the amount it was observed was statistically very low. They weren't able to determine what the effect was on if a radar detector resulted in more speeding because that was too complex to study though.

[1] https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/1481/dot_1481_DS1.pdf
You're absolutely correct. People have been trying for decades and it's never gone beyond toy deployments. Even scenarios where it would be critically useful such as mobile military haven't really made it work. The latency problem is unfixable.

(It doesn't help that people in this thread are confusing "mesh" with "collection of access points each of which is individually connected to a wired ISP", which is not a mesh.)
yeah like when they uselessly reinvented flow with typescript

also reinventing atom with vscode.
You're not trying to convince the choir, you're trying to convince the masses.

Sure, Leonardo DiCaprio, Richard Branson, Albert Gore, Barrack Obama and high schoolers are impressed, but not the mom and dad working jobs that are teetering, driving beaters and facing pressure from cheap labor. They see these people jet-setting being hyper-overconsumers and think, what the hell? They see these people increasing their wealth promoting change, but they don't change. Why should I change, they're not changing, they're adding more!
I just don’t get why they absolutely had to come up with new syntax. All of this would have been possible with standard Typescript, unlocking heaps of existing tooling, editor support, and prior knowledge. But no! Let’s come up with a new language, bespoke compiler, new LSP and IDE integrations, and make developers learn yet a new DSL.

It’s creating changes for the sake of creating changes.
Cartoonish output is a problem across the board. If you explicitly ask Dall-E for a "photograph" of something, you will very often get a result that looks like a cartoonified illustration. Prompt writers resort to specifying exact camera models and lenses to try to constrain the process.
> Nuclear is not safe

Nothing is 100.0% safe - but as far as I can find nuclear comes incredibly close[0] even when including Chernobyl and Fukushima.

[0]: https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy
Every sound in this video was computationally generated (no recorded samples)
Ask HN: What are the legal implications of recording my voice interviews?
I want to use these recordings to gauge how I improve in my interviewing.
Gotcha. I think this might be where Protobuf falls short because you have to "source" the tooling for all its different outputs, but support for OpenAPI 3.0 spec generation has existed for over a year.
Sure, but those stopped being fun years ago. Haven't touched them since.
The problem you describe seems to be one targeted by the TerraPower project in Wyoming. It plans to operate at 100% capacity at all times (345 MWe), but makes itself more akin to other renewables by incorporating energy storage into its design.
It is supposed to be able to increase capacity to 150% (500 MWe), allowing it to respond to energy scarcity. But it can also respond to energy abundance by storing excess production in molten salt storage tanks.
There is a Vyvanese generic these days. It looks like it's cheaper than what you are paying with Goodrx rates but there was an ADD drug shortage so I don't know if there's still a supply chain issue.
> You (AirBnB Host) rent a house to Person

this is outrageously incorrect analogy.. you ASSUME property ownership in the first statement. Where are personal legal records analogous to owned property? by whom?
The other point is what if your Company's exit strategy is dependent on going big. Then it is pertinent that you plan for that 0.01% chance because there is no other exit.
The Plucked String: an interactive webpage using Julia
Who is behind this? "Apply to find out more" yeah, nah
There is a maintenance-free fusion generator in the sky so powerful that it can burn out your retinas from 150,000,000km away.
This very much depends on what jurisdiction you're in. You should consult an attorney for advice about this.

That said, it's pretty safe to say that if you've obtained informed consent from the other party to record, then it's OK to record.
To Microsoft's credit, both are better alternatives, with VS Code being _significantly_ superior to Atom.
It’s always interesting to read about how people balance gaming with everything else in life, especially when it comes to a game as time-consuming as World of Warcraft. I started playing WoW around the time of Mists of Pandaria, and back then, the game felt so much simpler. I remember spending hours just exploring the zones and completing quests without even thinking about how long it was taking. But as more expansions came out and more content was added, it became clear that keeping up with everything could feel like a full-time job.

One memory that stands out is my first attempt at a Challenge Mode dungeon during Warlords of Draenor. My guild and I spent days trying to master the mechanics, time our runs perfectly, and work as a team to beat the timer. The satisfaction of finally getting gold on all the dungeons was worth all the effort, but it took an incredible amount of time and dedication. These days, it’s harder to find that kind of time to sink into WoW, especially with work and other commitments. That’s why I’ve been using WoW Delve Boost - https://wowvendor.com/shop/wow/delves/ - recently. They’ve helped me get through some of the tougher content in the new expansions without needing to grind endlessly. The boost makes sure I still get the rewards and gear I need, but I can also enjoy the game more casually.

It’s funny how the game has changed so much over the years. Back then, I never would have thought of using a boost, but now it’s a great way to stay competitive and experience the endgame without the massive time commitment. WoW has always been about finding that balance between challenge and fun, and having the option to use a service like Delve Boost makes it a lot easier to focus on the parts of the game that I enjoy the most.
I would love this, but with Nix.
Instead of knee jerk firebase is bad, can we discuss how this could be abated properly with firebase rules for firestore?

Is this the rule that was missing for arcs boosts or whatever object?

```

match /objects/{object} {

// Allow create new object if user is authenticated

allow create: if request.auth != null;

// Allow update or delete document if user is owner of document

allow update, delete: if request.auth.uid == resource.data.ownerUID

}

```
Yeah, Jax provides a one-to-one reimplementation of the Numpy interface, and a decent chunk of the scipy interface. Random number handling is a bit different, but Numpy random number handling seeeeems to be trending in the Jax direction (explicitly passed RNG objects).

Jax also provides back-propagation wherever possible, so you can optimize.
eva (kibty.town) and mr. bruh never disappoint!
A nice synchronicity here, I was only checking Māori words today because The Guardian's cryptic crossword was set by "Pangakupu" (which means, logically enough, "crossword"). This crossword setter always includes a hidden Māori word or phrase in the puzzle.
FastHTML: The Perfect Framework for Simple AI-Powered Web Apps?
you are describing the same thing?

sorry as a practitioner i’m having trouble understanding what point/distinction you are trying to make
I'm not trying to be offensive here, but I've realized that the design choices of the tool and the explanation in README was a little too difficult and unfriendly for the average TypeScript user.

I've added a more detailed explanation to README so I hope it will change your mind if you've previously had a negative impression :)

https://github.com/line/ts-remove-unused#readme
Why is your SaaS a one-time payment? That's very atypical for SaaS.
Remote security gun for protecting South African businesses
Jax variables are immutable.

Code written for CuPy looks similar to numpy but very different from Jax.
Wikihow is crap.
Probably nothing unless you want to emulate it on severely underpowered hardware.
I'd be even more gleeful if I was in car insurance. "Openpilot's not covered, your insurance is invalidated."
Later on moxie ends up writing a quick review of NBPs

> Instead of storing the data on-chain, NBPs instead contain a URL that points to the data. What surprised me about the standards was that there’s no hash commitment for the data located at the URL. Looking at many of the NBPs on popular marketplaces being sold for tens, hundreds, or millions of dollars, that URL often just points to some VPS running Apache somewhere. Anyone with access to that machine, anyone who buys that domain name in the future, or anyone who compromises that machine can change the image, title, description, etc for the NBP to whatever they’d like at any time (regardless of whether or not they “own” the token). There’s nothing in the NBP spec that tells you what the image “should” be, or even allows you to confirm whether something is the “correct” image.
In the article, it says the sun
After half year in production finally some malicious user hit my code with injection that crumbled the hi throughput system.

This was surprising for 2 reasons:

1. That nobody came up with the injection for so long.

2. That the injection was pretty silly and non obvious (kinda explains first point lol). Not your typical sql/js/css etc. it had something to do with localization and the cumbersome way it was implemented in some java libraries
As someone who has written programs professionally his whole career, I find the idea that any programmer holds an entire non-trivial program in their head to be laughable. Good software design means writing programs in such a way that you absolutely do not need to hold the whole thing in your head at one time.
Making Windows handhelds behave in Linux
can we make a siloed version of HN for your political faction? it’s tiresome reading these in every thread
Getting the parties on the desk, or the people commissioning enterprise IT systems, to understand this is going to be a serious uphill struggle. Especially in places that are used to photocopying your ID.
Certain topics, and Apple is certainly one of them, can be essentially guaranteed to generate a ton of traffic. HN is by no means immune. And some writers have made a career of taking advantage of that fact.

Meanwhile, a founder of one of the major 80s-era minicomputer companies that even had a book written about them passed away a few weeks ago and I would have not even known except for my Facebook groups.
IIRC jax's `scipy.sparse.linalg.bicgstab` does support multiple right hand sides.

EDIT: Or rather, all the solvers under jax's `scipy.sparse.linalg` all support multiple right hand sides.
> ...as well as that they’d migrate only 10% of their data sound preposterous.

Ah, I might be unduly affected by some big data (not Big Data, mind you) migrations that I'm currently involved in, where the Powers That Be are telling us that we have to throw away a huge fraction of our historical data. Well, that and the many times we've had to fight beancounters who popped on by to demand we save the company what amounts to pocket change by throwing away tons of historical data.

(It's flabbergasting how beancounters tend to ignore the price of programmer time when making their cost-cutting spreadsheets.)
I think that was the grandposter's sarcastic point.
I was never talking about if they made a mistake or not. That is after the fact and outside the scope of what I have been saying. I know it matters, but that is not within the scope of my first comment that started this.

I took the little information they gave and from that the only true logical conclusion was they made the right choice for them at that moment. Full Stop.

You’re the one bringing the extra opinions into the matter and reading into a simple thing far too much. Most of the above I agree with you on outside of this particular thread. It has nothing to do with the very narrow scope of my original comment and attempted clarification.

Neither of us can know 100% what was right or wrong for them in that moment, but based on the information of A. no longer feeling right about being associated with a place for reasons that they deemed important enough to come to this conclusion — and B. aligning actions with that inner knowledge; makes it the right action (choice) for that person. If they changed their mind later, it does not change the immutable facts of that moment. It simply provides a new set of choices and options that is outside the scope of my original comment.
> Most people don’t run ZFS

Well, the people who host the people do. Is that not argument enough in favor of it?
CrowdStrike outage is causing businesses to switch security vendors
I use one but I do not usually speed - because most police cars in my state have radar signals on at all times, it basically tells you if there are any police cruisers within ~1 mile. I believe cops are dangerous and unpredictable so this is useful information to me.
I know lots of people working on AI. they are among the least bro-y group of people I have ever met.

There is simply nothing similar to actual bro-y finance culture among AI research engineers. It is entirely a figment of the media and backreaction that we currently have to portray everyone we don’t like as a “bro” - truth be damned.
Nuclear isn’t a replacement for solar and wind. It’s additive.

Build all of it.
cupy came out a long time before Jax; remember using it in a project for my BSc around 2015-2016.

Cool to see that it's still kicking!
"Looks good on my CV" syndrome.
I think of your suggested idea of objective reviews and classifications quite often, but the problem ends up being discoverability. There have been a handful of sites that were highly useful by aggregating price and consumer sentiment/recommendations from Reddit. They get initial visibility and search traffic, then get penalized by Google. Froogle/Google shopping gets priority and is the only aggregator that Google really wants to include.

Look at defunct sites like Nextag that were moderately useful in the space-- they had free and paid placements. They were steadily growing search visibility until Google started pushing their own product (Froogle, free product listings in 2014ish) and Nextag suddenly "violated Google's policies" and lost 90%+ of their traffic rather quickly (probably 1MM daily visits to under 10k basically overnight). Google shopping technically offers "free product listing placement", hidden well below the ads-- likely as a defense to anti-trust on monopolization of that specific space.

Brickseek and CamelCamelCamel are the two most successful/long lived tools in the space-- and they grew their visibility from the now defunct but once huge deal site FatWallet and SlickDeals. Walled garden subreddits frequently disallow posting of specific tools, so it makes organic growth super challenging-- given that pretty much all commercial queries start with Google or Amazon.
The incredibly stupid part of all this is that the conservative government insisted on wrecking the trade side because reducing immigration was deemed more important, and then entirely voluntarily issued a lot of work permits.

(without even getting into the more obligatory areas of immigration like refugees and marriages)
To preface, this is not my field (space stuff is just an interest of mine), and this specific theory is more on the fringes than most so I haven't spent a significant amount of time thinking about it.

>is mass 1-to-1 with the "parent" universe? In this theory, are we inside a black hole containing billions of galaxies worth of matter?

My understanding of the theory is that the proposed parent black hole which our universe is inside would necessarily have to contain all of the mass that we detect in our observable universe. So our universe would be 1-to-1 mass of the parent black hole. The parent universe would be larger (and may contain many black holes, each with a nested universe).

>An average black hole has 50 suns in it, 50 times the mass of our star, that would be a universe without much matter

Indeed! It's interesting to think that perhaps we are on one of the "lowest" layers of the nested multiverse, and perhaps there are only a few dozen (or whatever) layers below us until there is too little mass in that universe to create any more black holes. However, there could be an infinite amount of layers "above" us.

I am curious to where the 50 solar-mass figure comes from, though. Is this excluding super-massive and ultra-massive black holes (which are on the order of 10^6 to 10^11 solar masses)? My intuition says 50 solar-masses is orders of magnitude too low for the average mass of a black hole, but I've never really looked into it
They are indeed similar and OpenAI did indeed use RL at training time in a way that has not been done before, as does this approach. Yes both also involve some additional inference-time generation, but the problem is that (at least as of now) you can't get standard LLMs to actually do well with extra inference-time generation unless you have a training process that uses RL to teach them to do so effectively. I'm working on a blog post to explain more about this aimed at HN-level audiences. Stay tuned!
The privacy nightmare of Microsoft Copilot: September 20th 2024 update
LeCuns argument is seriously flawed. It is not at all a rigorous one and you should not make such sweeping statements based on nothing.
Someone should train an LLM on all the kernel documentation, code, mailing lists, etc.
I love giving the AVR example when people ask if something can run on an underpowered machine, now I have a new example to link.

Considering the frequencies and wattage I wonder how RF it spits out and what is detectable and decodable on the waterfall of a SDR.

By the way still reading through it, but at the time of this comment I see the word "soubroutine" which is probably a misspelling.
The British voted for Brexit to enjoy poorer standards.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/09/...

Good luck with removing "red tape".
It’s a thing in that he said it but it’s not an actual law and it has several obvious logical flaws. It applies just as equally to human utterances.
Morally, I agree 100%. But legally, detection is banned in some jurisdictions (Virginia, Washington DC, most of Canada, etc.) so it's ambiguous to say "we have a right" without at least defining which population and which definition of right.
> Speeding has risks, mainly for others

Intentionally driving slower than traffic flow, causing impediments and angry drivers to pass you on the left and right is far more dangerous. E.g. the left lane campers and road vigilantes.

> and pollutes.

You can't speed in an EV?
There is a bit similar project which supports Intel GPU offloading: https://github.com/intel/scikit-learn-intelex
https://www.speakeasy.com/guides/api-frameworks/typespec

This post has a bit more detail about why "we don't need more standards" might not be the correct take here

(Disclaimer speakeasy is a client but I wasn't directly involved in writing this and just figured it's pretty relevant here)
With many (non-police) cars now having radar for collision avoidance, are radar detectors still useful?
I recall there being a thread with way more discussion at the time, but I can't put my finger on that thread right now. This post has some information:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35152419
"Better" and "regression" are purely subjective.

I have access to around 1000 "channels", if you include live broadcasts and network-like apps. How exactly were old TVs better at helping navigate that?
you’re saying you have never seen an example of AI working well?
> It works the same for both parties, not the nonsense you said.

So we aren't actually wrong because it does not, in fact, work the same for both parties. The composition of the court right this moment is such that Republicans win and democrats lose. Divorced of what the law or prior precedence dictates.

You are right, congress can make changes to the court. But don't pretend like the law is being evenly or fairly applied without regard for the underlying politics.
Is this the real Aviato?
thank you very much! mostly that is in keeping with my understanding, but the 100–200ns number is pretty shocking to me
As someone with an app built on firebase, yes. As the author rightly points out, it's very easy to misconfigure, but basic security practices like these are highlighted in bright, bold warning text in the Firebase docs.

Security rules are meant to be taken seriously, and it's your only line of defense.
This was my exact question. Why do an LLM rewrite, when you can add a context vector to a chunk vector, and for plaintext indexing, add a context string (eg, tfidf)?

The article claimed other context augmentation fails, and that you are better off paying anthropic to run an LLM on all your data, but it seems quite handwavy. What vector+text search nuance does a full document cache LLM rewrite catch that cheapo methods miss? Reminds me of "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it". (We process enough data that we try to limit LLMs to the retrieval step, and only embeddings & light LLMs to the indexing step, so it's a $$$ distinction for our customers.)

The context caching is neat in general, so I have to wonder if this use case is more about paying for ease than quality, and its value for quality is elsewhere.
It's crazy how in our modern world people still might get offended because of something as common and natural as sex.
Well, perpetual motion is also considered unsolvable. Perhaps the right regulation would make it happen?

Or... maybe that line of reasoning isn't super strong.
TypeScript wasn't better than Flow when it gained dominance. It happened because Microsoft created an out-of-the-box experience with VS Code that worked great with TypeScript but made Flow types look broken.
yes sorry, i should be more explicit going forward
I made a bulletproof LinkedIn Scraper
I made a LinkedIn Scraper that stands out for its success rates, data completeness and price (yeah, it's way cheaper than rivals, who perform worse).

This scraper got much liked by reddit users, so I'm curious what hackernews follks will say.

Check it out here: https://getapihub.cloud
Would it make you feel better if it had the title "Linux Horror Stories and Protection Spells (from the perspective of a spoiled Windows user)"? Does it really matter?