skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't find the reference at the moment. But, I think it was about the "creation" of the quark. (I'll find it eventually). Either way, a search for reality, no matter how far we've progressed thus far, is either a search for a platonic reality, or an experimental reality. The former is "discovery" and the latter is "invention". It really doesn't matter. I don't think, right now, we're quite smart enough to pry into the mind of the universe, so we'll keep "inventing" things until we actually approach "discovery" asymptotically. Maybe we'll get there, but we've never been closer :-)
Yes, SCD30 series are optical while SCD40 series are photoacoustic. STC series are thermal conductivity based. STC and SCD40 are smaller than SCD30 but less accurate if memory serves (check datasheet).
ML-KEM is Kyber, the lattice-based winner of the NIST PQ KEM competition (think of a KEM as a public-key encryption and delivery of a key, as opposed to Diffie Hellman, in which both sides agree on a key together). It's a key establishment mechanism that resists quantum attacks.
I’ve been considering designing a wearable that monitors CO2 and PM2.5 continuously, but I’m unsure if people would wear it in conjunction with an Apple Watch or similar.
Don't most coping mechanisms? What's needed is to reduce it without reliance to continue doing it.
The spec says either way (https://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#h-17.9), but I agree with putting the input inside the label for the acessibility and avoiding the blank space issue.
This was a very interesting discussion, and I just wanted to note that both of you are extremely articulate and I quite enjoyed reading your thoughts on this.

- random stranger
I would like to thank this website for reminding me to drink water.
I suspect this probably applies more to certain nations. Microwave meals are a lot less prevalent in Europe as a staple.
How much water do you drink and do you take extra salt?
The classical panopticon was phrased that way ("pretend that you're watching and everyone will fall in line") precisely because actually paying attention was infeasible. But anyone with half a brain knows that, up until now, 99% of cameras that you see (or don't see) are completely unmonitored, meaning that smart dissidents understand how to deal with them. Once every single camera has an AI agent phoning home and producing a real-time map of everyone's movements at all times, this becomes orders of magnitude more difficult.

In the AI age, revolution becomes impossible. Hang on for dear life to your freedoms, because once they're gone, you're never getting them back, thanks to tech.
I have attempted, in vain, to bring this kind of thinking into the companies and teams that I have worked with. They don’t want it.

And in interviews, no one wants a Software Artisan. The cynic in me says that it’s because people want the job security of the typical bullshit position and don’t want anyone upsetting that.
> further his long term goal of saving the world from climate change

Elon doesn’t give a shit about climate change. If he did, he wouldn’t be such an egregious polluter and opponent of public transit. Cards Against Humanity just sued him for what he did to their preserved land.
Or fast enough to break the sound barrier. I'd assume that's a new discovery when catapults were still relevant. Or heating of the projectile from drag...
I think the distinction is more "we understand it" and "we can explain it." Understanding doesn't generally imply totality of comprehension.

Going the other way, you most likely cannot explain why your body or your brain works, yet, here we are, using and understanding them just fine.

Which leads to what I was trying to get at. Perhaps our tentative understandings and our means of receiving them are what gets in the way of deeper comprehension.
I had them after an accidental too big MDMA dose, after which I felt depressed for a few weeks.
The line between whimsy and intellectual negligence seems blurry, in this case… how many people have been tricked by bad-faith gurus using this?

Thanks for sharing, TIL and it’s fascinating.
Comparing 74 and 75 with no confidence interval and claiming one was bigger than the other was rather bold I thought.
The specific supplement used in this research [0] was equal parts DHA and EPA (no ALA, which is the third main Omega-3.) Determining whether the effect is specific to one of the Omega-3's or general to the class would be an expected subject of further research, as would seeing if the effect holds outside of the lab mice model.

There's a whole lot of work between this study and anything actionable other than for planning further research to confirm and better understand the effect, and whatever more general problems psypost.com may have, reporting the source of the effect as "Omega-3" is both consistent with the paper and not overly general given the actual facts.

[0] Linked from the story, but: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S235228952...
Why? The other social networks aren't acting like free speech crusaders. X has decided to set its own standard of its own volition.
Answering in case this is not humor: no, it isn't.

From the top of my head, quantum entanglement is something:

1/ that happens at quantum level, so typically with measurable effects on a scale smaller than one atom (way smaller than one neuron);

2/ that requires specific operations on a specific group of particles (the probability that such entangled particles end up in two different brains of related people is infinitesimal);

3/ that requires many measures to confirm – and you can only do so once per group of particles (so it would not be sufficient to have two entangled particles one in each brain, you'd probably need tens of thousands).
I have a very senior position and build get into the exclusive club and the ivory tower. And make much more money.

I decided not to for a bunch of reasons - the most important ones being that I am at my limit of corporate bullshit, that I am an expert in what I do and wild be average in a new position.

There is also this sweet freedom edge when I can still criticize, but not be perceived as shitting my bed.

My son who is doing (elite) studies in finance cannot comprehend that. To him, an opportunity is something you ought to catch. I envy him his 20 years old :)
Cory Doctorow:What is Enshitification, Why it happened, and How to fix it[video]
A transcript of the talk is here: https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/17/hack-the-planet/
I love Emacs, but I think it would be challenging to teach an intro programming course using it these days. (We landed on VSCode for teaching Python.)
Super interesting, thanks for sharing
Agreed (in fact my profile claims I do artisanal software :-)

But I go further - software is a form of literacy, and everyone should learn to code, just as at some point we thought “hey laws are written down, novels are great, policy manuals and international letters help, let’s teach the peasents to read” and all of a sudden we have working class people going to university and discovering things like Relativity and Covid vaccines.

Software is literacy and we will all benefit when we can run / examine our society through it.

Book to follow
I’m trying to find the source of the $300 claim. Mostly it’s appearing on Bitcoin websites, which say it’s an estimate from Noranett.

At least one Bitcoin site is reporting the figure as $300 per year.

The Noranett press release announcing the 20% increase does not put a dollar (or krone) amount on it.
Artisan is not a bad metaphor. Take furniture. There's a place for IKEA, and there's a place for expensive, hand-crafted Scandinavian furniture.

https://www.scandinaviastandard.com/this-is-why-that-sofa-is...
Can

% grep '^include' Makefile -c
159

includes with

% wc --lines --total=only $(awk '/^include/{ print $2 }' Makefile) Makefile
22547

lines in total really count as having a single makefile? I have no dog in this fight, just wondering.
Yes. There are a lot of devices that support people with disabilities that nowadays use a phone as their interface. In the past most had their own devices but phones are near universally available so they have become the go-to interface for most of these devices.
This has been my go-to for all of my local LLM interaction: it easy to get going, manages all of the models easily. Nice clean API for projects. Updated regularly; works across Windows, Mac, Linux. It's a wrapper around LlamaCpp, but it's a damned good one.
A Multimodal User Embedding Provides Personalized Explanations
Nice to see this miniaturization of photoacoustic spectroscopy - something I've done a bit of in the past. It is an underappreciated technique. Ordinarily one measures the difference in optical throughput with and without a sample. If it is a weak absorber, it is a difference between two large numbers. PAS is zero background. No absorption, no pressure wave, no signal. Any absorption stands out clearly against that zero background.
Perfluorohexyloctane helped me quite a bit. You can ship it from Europe for something like $20 per vial (EvoTears), or get in the US for $700 (Miebo). The vials are literally identical.
https://archive.is/9fXK4
> Depending on the security policy, the user's PATH environment variable may be modified, replaced, or passed unchanged to the program that sudo executes.

Essentially a "maybe, depending on what your OS policy is", proving that your comments are less than helpful.
I’m not a physicist, but as an arrogant philosopher of science: isn’t it just field excitation? Like, every particle looks like a circle bouncing around a 2D piece of paper, but if you look reeaaaaally closely it’s just a localized 3D spike of energy in a usually 2D field of energy? So it’s made of the field/paper itself.

I must be under-thinking this, but that’s what’s worked pretty convincingly for me.
> Reason why companies aren't paying for FOSS is simply because they don't have to.

Yup. All this other stuff is just noise: this is the real reason.

If I ran an open source project that businesses used, I could make something that looked exactly like an invoice for a piece of commercial software, but say it's optional to pay, and companies would -- completely correctly -- not pay it.
A phrase I heard early in my career from a superior while reviewing code was "just reminding myself that while this isn't how I'd do it, that doesn't make it wrong"
I'm not sure how accurate that would be on your wrist, because the proportion of recently exhaled air would be so much higher, since it's only a foot or two from your mouth.

CO2 monitors often have little silent fans to draw in fresh air as well, for accuracy.
Markets naturally tend towards monopoly. The idea that monopolistic incumbents are always disrupted in laissez-faire markets is incorrect; incumbents have plenty of non-regulatory levers to keep themselves on top once they stay on top: kickbacks to suppliers and distributors, industrial espionage/sabotage, slanderous ad campaigns, cornering the markets for inputs, forming cartels with monopolistic producers of complementary products, poaching key employees, etc. If you think the government is the only barrier to competition, you haven't given this enough thought.
The HTML spec doesn't speak much on a11y guidelines. Here's what the W3's WAI says https://www.w3.org/WAI/tutorials/forms/labels/#associating-l...

> Whenever possible, use the label element to associate text with form elements explicitly

> [..]

> In some situations, form controls cannot be labeled explicitly... Generally, explicit labels are better supported by assistive technology

...but people have been saying that for like 15 years now, I don't know how big of a deal those failures are. That'd be a good blog post
Richard Feynman gave what I consider to be the best possible answer to questions like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1lL-hXO27Q
Yep. Also, ignoring all the ways in which an electron isn't an electron. Electrons can be created and destroyed, and they are both indistinguishable and exchangeable. We can't assign identity to them, thanks to their Fermi statistics. They're just methods of explaining clicks in a detector.

I worked in particle physics for years and never once saw an electron. :-)
My 10,000 hours are well behind me and I build web apps a bit like this. Previous jobs are like a shed full of parts that will get 60% of the way there, and the rest is making a couple of custom parts and a lot of fettling. Sometimes I build a table from scratch just to remind myself I can.
Serving AI from the Basement Part II: SWE Agents, MoEs, Batch Inference, and Mor
Hey guys, If you remember, I shared my first blogpost here a couple of weeks ago Serving AI From The Basement (https://ahmadosman.com/blog/basement-ai-resident/serving-ai-...) and there was a great and lively discussion thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41481852) with a lot of good input and questions.

This is my second blogpost, and in this one: SWE Agentic Framework – think of it as the puppet master for coders plus Replit's next nemesis. MoEs – imagine a team of AI experts, each shouting answers when it's their topic. Quantizations & Mixed Precision – turning AI from gourmet to fast food without losing the flavor. Batch Inference – AKA AI's quiz night, answering all questions at once. LLM Architectures – blueprints for our chatty AI friends. vLLM and Tensor Parallelism – or the thing that makes big AI models run lean. DeepSeek v2.5 – our open weights savior. Embedding Models – translating human words into AI-understandable numbers. Speculative Decoding – or AI's attempt at mind-reading, guessing your sentences before you finish them.

In the next blogpost I plan on addressing the main pain points of the hardware build and following up on the most-asked questions I received on the first one. I apologize for taking so long to get that out there, but it is taking me more than I expected to properly cover everything I want.

Please let me know if you have any comments or questions, and always feel free to reach out either here or via the social links on my website.
Seems similar to the SCD40 photoacoustic approach.

I used that for an open-source CO2 monitor I designed:

https://bitclock.io/

https://github.com/goat-hill/bitclock
I think you're ignoring the conversation. There is a lot of discussion to be had, and we don't have to say that decoding punycode is a security risk and simply do without. I also said "conventions" specifically to avoid meaning that these are hard-and-fast rules. And Firefox does something pretty similar. https://wiki.mozilla.org/IDN_Display_Algorithm#Algorithm
Terrible advice. You don't know if they're at their low point. Their low point could be 0.
And you do that decoupling by…

Refactoring.

So I’m a little confused about why it sounds in this whole thread like we are vilifying refactoring without actually saying we are doing so. It’s weird.
Exactly. CoCs are Trojan horses.
When you say particles are whatever we say they are, I assume you believe particles are subjective. I'm saying particles are objective, like a "wavelength" as opposed to subjective, like "morals".

If you are saying even objective things are whatever we say they are, then this is a useless discussion. Obviously every word is defined with other words and all words are human creations. So yea in that sense, literally everything we know of is whatever we say it is. That's a pointless statement to make in response to this article or really ever.
But what was the shutdown bug you were trying to identify? Was this destructor logging actually useful? The article teases the problem and provides detailed instructions for reproducing the logging, but doesn't actually describe solving the problem.
They arent locked into any contract whatsoever at prepaid companies like MetroPCS, Cricket, Tracfone, Boost etc. These companies provide the phones as interest free loans and the businesses incur all the risk.
Seems this will require giving your bank account number to every accommodation on your trip.

What could possibly go wrong?
> You know, normal business accountability things, right?

No, not at all. A normal business accountability thing would involve not paying for something when you don't have to. Or, rather, not paying when paying doesn't grant additional value beyond what not paying gives you.

For the most part, a company that uses an open source project will not see any upside if they pay. Collectively, yes, it would be better to financially support the projects that companies depend on, but on an individual basis, a company logically sees no reason to pay.

And even if the worst happens, say the sole maintainer gets hit by a bus and dies... most companies will be content to wait and see, and deal with that problem if and when it happens, not before then.
Yes but clearly you couldn’t achieve that with normal catapult technology. You need some theory to be able to predict what energies are going to be significant.
I’m going to spend more time at work than at home - I’d rather do it with people I like.

I had students years ago telling me ´ I want to work in field x because there’s good money , but based on my experience, I don’t like the people/culture’. They tried nonetheless, all gave up.

You might be able to ignore the people you work with, but lots of people can’t . It if works for you, I guess it’s much easier though !
> The problem lies that it is hard to imagine something that does have zero dimensions.

Do you really think so? It’s not hard to picture the real number line, with the point zero (or any other single point) distinguished. Sure — if you draw it in the standard schematic way you have to give it some area, but it still seems quite intuitive that it’s ‘zero-dimensional’. Especially if you play around with converging sequences and open sets and stuff; you quickly develop intuition for what it means to be a point rather than something higher dimensional.
https://lwn.net/Articles/973231
At what layer of abstraction are you no longer an artisan? Or doesn't it matter?

It's a nice "label" but it's a bit murky what it means the farther away from machine code (the raw materials) you get. Are you an artisan if you use an IDE?

I do enjoy the sentiment however.
> Credit reporting and collections.

This has a loss rate of around 70-80% across the collections industry, which is an extremely strong disincentive to go this route since it's just highly inefficient. The high cost of the collections process is a deadweight loss upon all society.
All of this can be solved with a 3-20MB PDF file, a 10kb snippet/template file, and a whiteboard.
Opioids continue to be over-vilified. They're very useful and beneficial drugs.
This reminds me of a quote from somewhere: All models are useful, none are correct. I (not OP) make a strong effort to be objective in my modeling of the world (even when it hurts), as it’s the only tool I have to understand and predict behavior and behavioral expectations. I wish we had access to predefined objective mental models, or could share them with each other (copy program structure and state across minds).
Ostern
Just adding a little bit of context about AT&T: I collect used cell phones, erase them, unlock when possible, and distribute them to unhoused people through several local food shelves, which allows those people to access benefits, housing, health care, jobs, etc which would otherwise be out of reach. With AT&T I can go to their website and unlock an old phone in minutes, allowing them to use a no-cost carrier like QLink Wireless. With T-Mobile or Consumer Cellular (or many others) they just give you the finger. The phone could be e-waste for all they care.
> some people actually want their work to be more than just an exchange of their time for money.

Nearly everybody has grandiose wishes.
Early consumption of peanuts in infancy (2008)
What makes you say "over-villified"? They are a very dangerous yet effective tool, true. However, Western society is still reeling from the opiod crisis. I have a hard time feeling like it's over-villified, from my perspective it is only now feeling appropriately villified.
> yet, here we are, using and understanding them just fine.

I think we’re failing miserably precisely because we don’t.
There are conflicting studies, but recently, it was determined you need adequate vitamin B levels to support omega-3.

As an aside, you can definitely over-dose on omega-3 which can cause afib, and increase your chance of stroke. I was taking 2 grams per day and definitely had arrhythmia issues. Decreasing the dosage to 500mg per day eliminated the arrhythmia.
I don't even remember my bank account number. Whenever I need it I just copy paste it from the online bank... I think there will be fun times trying to verify this information.
you get it! I think the exactly same way.
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin was physically injured today by U.S. armed forces or defense contractors in retaliation for participating in immediate Ukraine peace agreement discussions since Friday, 20 September, 2024.
No, but it’s the very definition of new age pseudo science work that was all the rage in the 90s.
You have to be careful with such high doses over a long period of time. It can cause heart arrhythmia.
Fascinating. Would you elaborate on the mechanics behind the dignity/worthiness?
The problem with hiring artisans is that most companies need a Honda Civic not an Enzo Ferrari.

If they hire an artisan it’s just going to be frustrating for everyone involved. The business will pay more than the value received and wonder wtf and the artisan will be bored out of their mind looking for fun projects to do.
Parent link says NVDA, VoiceOver, and JAWS all support the implicit way. That’s the industry standard suite to support, they’re all free and available across all platforms.

If some company makes a shoddy half baked solution for sale (looking at you, Dragon), and they don’t understand basic HTML that has been standardized for years, that’s not my problem. The same way I don’t only use the subset of web technologies that the AOL Premium web browser supports for $10 bucks a month.
Deep space radio signal reaches Earth after 8B years
lol, that’s not how this works, that’s not how any of this works…

you cannot demand more than someone is willing to or able to pay, either a researcher out there will spend some time on it because it’s a relatively new contender to the market and they’re hoping for low hanging fruit, or they won’t.

obviously the bounty was enough for someone to look at it and get paid out for a find, otherwise we wouldn’t be having this conversation. trying to argue that they should set a bounty high enough to make it worth your time is pointless and a funny stance to take. feel free to ignore it or be upset that they aren’t offering enough to make you feel secure, it’s not going to make 100k appear out of thin air.
I call it synchronicity
How streaming LLM APIs work
Since I’ve made pihole a part of my home infrastructure, using this same phone away from home is noticeably much more painful.
At first I was impressed with that video. Then I felt he does not have an answer and unnecessarily gets edgy with it, because question is valid.
I cured mine bc I figured out it was related to LPR/reflux which was causing dry eyes along with some other crappy stuff.
I think most of the executives and managers do - yes.

That’s why I said to shame individuals, not faceless entities. And I think it’s fascinating that you didn’t reply to what I actually said.

Even as you tried to shame me (ie “if you actually believe that, you’re so dumb you’d buy something ridiculous!”) because you recognize that shaming is an effective tactic.