skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this comment ignores a lot of context.

Cathedrals were the result of centuries of research into materials science, physics, and geometry -- and that's just considering the buildings themselves, not even the often-intricate religious art within.

Some of the challenges and solutions in cathedral architecture took generations to solve; in many gothic and neogothic cathedrals with particularly tall, internally-unsupported naves, solutions like flying buttresses were thought up to support the walls externally -- sometimes with multiple layers of buttresses-upon-flying-buttresses. Developing the right cement and figuring out which type of stone you could use alone were often a project that took years, especially for landmark churches.

These churches sometimes took decades or centuries to build, depending on how you measure it (basically, if you include significant reconstructions).

They also weren't representative of the average construction project in essentially any region where there are cathedrals; those were more likely to be houses, shops, and other commercial buildings like port structures.

Things like flying buttresses or new, opulent-but-functional arch designs also weren't representative of the average innovation in those times. Depending on where you look, that might be stuff like, a new loom variant that lets you produce new patterns, or a new kind of cheese that ages quickly while having a similar enough flavour to a slower-aging, more expensive type of cheese.

My overarching point is -- at any given point in time, the average invention is small and boring. Specialists are a valuable resource, yes, but the more specialized they are, the smaller and more boring their contributions will seem to the average person outside of that specialization. Landmark innovations are built on thousands of smaller innovations made over years or decades, and those smaller innovations were usually invented by someone who's spent the past 25 years of their lives obsessing over that tiny thing, having published dozens of papers and argued for years about something you've likely never even heard of.
Like I said in another comment, I'm pointing out what is going to actually happen based on incentives, not what I want to happen. I'd much rather the open web continue to exist and I think AI will be a beneficial thing for humanity.

edit: to be clear, it's already happening. Blogs are moving to substack, twitter blocks crawling, reddit is going the same way in blocking all crawlers except google.
In older interviews Musk said that the Dojo is intended for deep learning.

So most likely that. I agree that this seems to have very little to do with cars.
How is this different from what literally any other hosted services company does? If anything, Google is being comparatively honest and transparent.
> No wealthy family is worrying about that.

They are, but in a different way. They worry if they can still afford to pay the mortgage while also paying for a second daycare/preschool tuition and then later a second private school tuition.

> The cost of raising a kid might go up with income, but probably not at the same slope as income, which would mean they get cheaper in relative terms.

FAFSA allows colleges to perform perfect price discrimination, so the cost of raising a kid through college absolutely goes up with the same slope as income. When colleges know you have significant retirement savings and a high income, your kids will get zero financial aid.
> If you don't have the discipline to work when you are supposed to, that's a you problem.

Actually it's a company problem, that is precisely why this is one of the main reasons they are doing it and why it actually makes sense.
Yeah I'm pretty sure most CPUs don't actually execute both branches. They pick the most likely one and execute that.

See https://people.computing.clemson.edu/~mark/eager.html
This is the figurative and literal inspiration for Amazon's Mechanical Turk.
In a gold rush, those with the diamond shovels will go further. The only way to no perpetuate class is to not have access to the consumer class depend on a certain selection of jobs. The problem is the size of the middle class, not the selectivity of participating in the middle class.
Google's new fake "podcast" summaries are disarmingly entertaining
Agreed, but I have to say data cleaning is actually one of the hardest step, LLMs are simply not there yet.

It's almost impossible to for LLM to tell all the invalid rows at once since the data cannot be fit into the context window. If we prompt the model to thoroughly do data cleaning, there will be many try-and-fail steps. This happens to me as a human, I clean some rows, expect my program to run with the data, only to find there are more malformed data.
LLM cannot get it right for now, actually I see many cases that LLM fails because it wants to convert types (e.g. string to date).

Based on my experience, the best way is simply to skip the data cleaning step in the planning stage (you can provide feedback asking the tool to not do any steps).
It looks beautiful, thanks for the write-up!

Question: Most docks have ample space around the phone to grip it and remove it from the dock easily. Your design encases the phone on every side. How do you get the phone out in the morning?
No Data Lasts Forever
It’s interesting to see how he had to write math in this paper. Instead of being able to type it, he had to leave spaces and fill it with his own handwriting. Maybe LaTeX isn’t so bad after all.
One minor, tedious thing that I've become so tired of lately is showcased very plainly in the screenshot in this article: That the Cloudflare admin dashboard has now prominently placed "AI Audit (ALPHA)" as a top-level navigation menu item at the very top of the list of a Cloudflare Account's products. Everyone is doing this, for AI products or whatever came before them, and it genuinely pushes me away from paying for Cloudflare, as I get the distinct sense that they aren't building the things or fixing the problems that I feel are important to me.

I would greatly appreciate the ability to customize the items and ordering of those items in this sidebar.
You'd think with all that money they'd have some decent content. Since Blue Eyed Samurai, I haven't watched a thing on Netflix. It would be interesting what percentage of people actually watch Netflix w/o a second screen in their face and what percent just keep it around for that one series a year (me).
This really needs some explanation, in text, of what it's actually doing and what media means here.
OP here. Of course, there are commissions and taxes. First, you can download it for free, but you can tip (donate) any money. Say you gave $10; around $1.5 goes to Gumroad. And then, of course, I'll have to pay income tax on the rest, depending on your country.
Directly from Apple the screens are closer to 25-30%, depending on the phone. And what competitor? You can’t even buy a screen directly from Samsung. Closest I see is the pixel series via ifixit, which truly do seem to cost about the same as the apple parts. Maybe a bit cheaper, but also the pixel displays are not quite as nice as iPhone ones.
https://archive.is/XbNmU
> We even have terminology for that in the auto world where you can “total” a car because it costs more to fix than replace.

It blows my mind that I never made this connection before.
What companies are using probabilistic programming
I know there is already a question with the exact same title. But it's from 2018. I want to follow up on that 6 years later. A lot of people mentioned Stan there as SOTA. Is this still true? What companies are successfully using probabilistic programming? Are there still new startups that focus on PP? What market verticals are they focusing on? I have the feeling a lot of startups are focusing on deep learning, while PP is completely neglected. And tbh, I haven't seen a lot of deep learning frameworks being able to compete with PP in production. That might be a bit of a hot take, happy to be proven wrong.

This is the 2018 post I am talking about: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17220861
Dragon isn't designed to go anywhere beyond LEO with the ISS.

Starship with its in-flight-refuelling, is.
I am personally aware of many commercial vessels that turn off their AIS to avoid leaking information to local government and competitors. My experience is limited to the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf coasts and the Caribbean.
I've acquired many, many reusable bags, and countless plastic bags. I also have normal garbage bags to use. At this point, I throw away most plastic bags I get. Otherwise I'd simply be inundated with plastic bags!

Anyway I much prefer the reusable (fabric) bags. Much stronger, larger, easier to carry.
The first conformant M1 GPU driver – Asahi Linux
> As someone who has repaired numerous cell phones over the last decade, I firmly believe the new iPhone is now far easier to repair than the new Samsung Galaxy, and I challenge you to prove me wrong. It might now be the most repairable mass market phone.

You are the one making grandiose claim.

Is it full of glue? Yes. Do they still tie spare parts origin to functionalities semi-arbitrarily? Yes. Are there spare parts far more expensive that they should be considering their actual costs? Also yes.

> Disagreements over that not being the place of a government aside, while I suppose they could screw it down like a laptop, this is my point, they made it better and you’re still complaining.

They could just do like the Fairphone or any other companies from the past decade and make it properly swapable.

Once again, I don't want them to make it better. I want them to make it properly repairable. I don't give a tosh that it's improving. They have unlimited budget if they want to.

> This grandstanding that there is a moral requirement of companies to design products in the way you want is silly.

It's not grandstanding. If you want to bury your head in the sand and pretend there is no issue with e-waste and obsolescence, that's your choice. Sadly we share the same planet so I will still do everything I can to force Apple to actually make good choices considering they don't seem to be able to do so unless they are forced to.
It wasn't an opinion, it was an observation.
What I mean is not really that grep hasn't been optimized, but that it kind of looks like it is. It's now far from the state of the art from most perspective (in part because of you).

And because there exists alternative that in most workloads are much faster than grep without really endangering grep's prominence, it shows that performance isn't really a criteria in its use nowadays (computers are fast).

My point as a whole is that as long as the implementation isn't catastrophically slow, then any port is good even if it's slower than GNU's because workloads that both care about max performance, and must be 100% compatible with the original, is small enough.
I'm asking you what you think Cloudfare should do. I'm not sure why you spun it around on me.
Book Review: On the Edge: The Fundamentals
"Spectical sounds like an improvement over skeptical since it implies that you keep looking and don't just dismiss. If this was a typo we should consider a coinage and run with it."

I love it! I seriously may use it.
Yes it is paid but there are good unofficial APIs (better than the official actually). The problem as you would expect is that they aren't highly reliable and losing messages is common.
They train an end-to-end model to drive based on 8 camera streams and recorded input from human drivers, training on tens, (if not hundreds now) of millions of 30 second clips from their consumer fleet. That's why they're bought one of the largest GPU clusters and making their own chips and transport protocols.

It's not widely known, but Tesla probably has one of the largest training cluster, because practically all the GPUs they buy go towards training, while most of GPUs for e.g. OpenAI go towards inference. Tesla does inference in the car.
Any recommendations for simple WAF tool that will stop the majority of the abuse without having to use Cloudflare? I use Cloudflare just to keep that noise away from my logs but I'm not super keen to be dependent on them.
What makes me sad is people spending more time commenting on Hackernews, but not as much time helping starving kids in Africa.
Why Is Britain Poor?
I only noticed recently that people are now printing in multiple colors (materials?) in one go - is that a new thing? Maybe something this manufacturer integrated?
The $150 dollar price I quoted you is a used, OEM screen, that has a grading that indicates it’s essentially like-new. Which Apple has stated and released you can calibrate and use with existing phones starting with iOS18 as long as it isn’t a stolen part. Not a 3rd party screen that looks like crap, the real deal.
Two years of blindness, arrogance, and vice
AFAIK, the IJW bits of the CLR are exclusive to Windows.
> I don't understand where this is coming from but it is very common since the pandemic.

It seems to come from a misunderstanding of expertise. Experts are often deeply focused on a specific issue and provide highly specialized advice. The problem arises when people either dismiss this advice outright, believing they know better, or when experts themselves overstep and present their advice as the only viable solution, missing the broader picture.

In the case of Apple’s screen removal method, it’s not that experts didn’t think of simpler approaches like using heat, but rather that they likely considered and discarded it for technical reasons. Just because a solution seems obvious to us doesn’t mean it hasn’t already been carefully evaluated by those with far more experience in the field.

This gets to the heart of why decision-makers must take expert advice but balance it with other factors. Experts, by nature, can become so focused on specific details—like examining individual leaf cells—that they fail to see the trees, let alone the entire forest. That’s why we shouldn't let any single expert dictate the entire process. If you let a lawyer design your product, it might be lawsuit-proof but unusable. If a security expert designed it, it might be unhackable but frustrating to use. And if an abstract artist designed it, it might be beautiful but completely impractical.

The pandemic is an extreme example of this problem. We didn’t just listen to epidemiologists; we listened to a specific subclass—the doomsday epidemiologist. The more balanced experts, who understood their role as advisors and recognized how their guidance needed to fit into the bigger picture, were sidelined. This led to morally reprehensible policies, like forcing children to die alone in hospitals and isolating the elderly in nursing homes, all because visitors were banned. In Australia, they even killed 15 shelter dogs, including puppies, just to prevent volunteers from traveling to pick them up [0]—another example of blindly following extreme advice. These kinds of decisions, made in the name of public health, are why many people have lost trust in “experts.”

Good product design—or public policy—requires input from multiple experts and a balance of priorities. Letting one perspective take over is a recipe for disaster.

[0] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2021/08/23/austral...
Microsoft didn’t manage to have Visual Basic target .NET without turning its semantics into C# with different syntax, so this will be interesting to see.
This is cool! I fully get the appeal of texting for journaling as I did that a lot with Signal. For a while now I have been working on a different way to capture this text yourself-powered journaling with my app tetr. It acts as a standalone app but employs a similar texting-based journaling system where you can set regular messages to be sent to you (even with stuff like checkboxes for routine tasks). It’s also offline-first so data stays on your devices (and will employ e2ee sync once that’s out).

https://tetr.app/
>Men in black always want popcount (it's been added to various architectures over the years at their request)

I've heard this a few times, do you have anything that explains this?
Why not make these much, much smaller, and have the battery swap be part of the design? Connect 100 bee-sized platforms together in a grid. Any one of which could be the "battery swapper" bee and keep the rest of the flock afloat?
Yes, so some of the gravitational potential energy gets converted into gravitational waves instead of flinging some stars further and further out, enabling at least something to stay behind.
"boy" is obviously a typo. But can be seen as a reference to Amazon Mturk kind of automation by delegating to a human.
nebula genomics uses chinese labs - would be careful about your data
The fundamental problem imho is that standardized tests, which start out as well-intended, start to replace actual skills as a focus of interest. This is especially problematic when the tests are only correlated 0.1-0.4 with whatever is actually of interest. The tail starts to wag the dog.

One common example of this is in policy discussions about the tests, where figures tend to only present means, with no variances or scatterplots. I remember this, for instance, from a report at Dartmouth not too long ago arguing for the use of standardized tests, where the authors only presented means, and not the huge variances around them which is really the heart of the issue.

It starts to become especially problematic when people get canalized into lifetime paths based on essentially invalid measures, especially when the targets themselves are changeable. "Meritocracy" starts to become sort of a misnomer at that point.

Of course, relying on anything too heavily starts to be an issue, and tests are a source of information. But when you start to overrely on anything, or rely on it to an extent that is empirically unwarranted, you start to have problems institutionally and societally.
The Korean nuclear numbers are unbelievable. They certainly didn't come anywhere close to that in UAE (more like $6/W, and possibly more if the concurrent military deal was being used as a slush fund to hide overruns.)
Easy to say, very difficult to implement it right (and implementing it not right is diffcult AND useless). Also, let's be clear here, whatsapp E2EE is a joke.
Sure, I'll give you a scenario.

Let's perform a search for vessels that have been inside some search box / geometry in the past 72 hours. In this case I'll do a search south of Africa. The search area looks like this:

https://i.imgur.com/z2LTC7k.png

Which will return the following list of vessels:

https://i.imgur.com/cKm1YlO.png

And if you plot the tracks for that area, there won't be much:

https://i.imgur.com/Max72J4.png

Now, let's save the ships (by MMSI number), and search where those ships have been in the past 72 hours?

Here's the resulting tracks:

https://i.imgur.com/SqS8GH9.png

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So, what happened here?

1) As you can see from the list with vessels, some of the rows only have a MMSI number - nothing more. A MMSI number is not static/constant, whereas an IMO number is - think of the IMO number as the VIN number of a vessels, it will following the ship from build to scrapping.

So a big problem is that we're not just looking at one track, but every AIS message that has that MMSI number associated. And generating those can be trivial.

Anyone with some AIS transponder can send out AIS messages with some MMSI number can achieve that

2) Because these AIS messages are being spammed at random, they will still appear in geometry / area searches. Usually just as one point / message, but you still have to filter them out.

Now, with that said, junk like that is easier to spot - because they usually do not have much more data than some MMSI, and maybe a flag state.
I mean, this is exactly what people like myself were predicting when these AI companies first started spooling up their operations. Abuse of the public square means that public goods are then restricted. It's perfectly rational for websites of any sort who have strong opinions on AI to forbid the use of common crawl, specifically because it is being abused by AI companies to train the AI's they are opposed to.

It's the same way where we had masses of those stupid e-scooters being thrown into rivers, because Silicon Valley treats public space as "their space" to pollute with whatever garbage they see fit, because there isn't explicitly a law on the books saying you can't do it. Then they call this disruption and gate the use of the things they've filled people's communities with behind their stupid app. People see this, and react. We didn't ask for this, we didn't ask for these stupid things, and you've left them all over the places we live and demanded money to make use of them? Go to hell. Go get your stupid scooter out of the river.
Similar experience here. I went to four high schools. The best ones, academically, were the bog-standard schools that people love to use as an easy punching bag.

The ones where classes were a breeze and barely challenging at all were the private college prep school and the not-quite-as-rich-but-still-pretty-wealthy high school in the suburban white flight community. My read on the situation was that teachers had figured out that every single parent believed their kid deserved a constant stream of gold stars, and had the leisure time and resources to make their lives miserable until it started happening. Also the white flight school cared a lot about its football team so you better make for damn sure that the classes aren't so challenging that the quarterback has trouble balancing their time spent on homework, practice, and partying.
Still based on files, however, Media Hoarder doesn't care if you feed it 0-byte files. So yes, you can export your Excel file as such.

Actually, I do use 0-byte files in my tests and demos. They are artificially created in the following way: https://github.com/theMK2k/media-hoarder-testset-generator
I can't explain exactly why but this looks beautiful!
Also needs to take into account if/when you're exposed to nicotine since nicotine can affect caffeine metabolism by CYP1A2 depending on your genotype.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3243019/
Whats the goal will replying with AI slop?
Printing is cheap and, even with a half-decent consumer-grade inkjet or laser printer, takes very little labor. Laminating is much more labor-intensive, though it's not bad as long as you stick to a standard paper size[0].

In my experience, somehow, in the transition to digital and past worries about "dead trees", most people missed the fact that paper and printing are dirt-cheap these days[1], and if you account for e-waste, often much more environment-friendly than digital alternatives.

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[0] - We bought a laminating machine recently, so my wife could make various educational tools for our kids herself. It quickly stops being fun once you're trying to laminate a bunch of arbitrarily-cut shapes on a single shit; keeping things aligned is a PITA.

[1] - Well, not if you're paying a print shop. I think that biases the intuition for many. Even color printing is too cheap to meter if you have a half-decent printer at home.
> State Sen. Catherine Blakespear, one of the bill’s supporters, said people were not reusing or recycling any plastic bags. She pointed to a state study that found that the amount of plastic shopping bags trashed per person grew from 8 pounds (3.6 kilograms) per year in 2004 to 11 pounds (5 kilograms) per year in 2021.

It looks like lots of people did toss plastic bags, even the thicker ones, away after one use. I wasnt living in CA but the thicker plastic bags were just thicker disposable bags to many people.
You can believe in whatever caricatures you want. I see no need to convince you of anything.
I've been using Jellyfin on Windows server (Arc GPU) for server, Shield for client, it's been working pretty well. What hardware are you using?