skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Of course we aren't going to win, but spending $20-50 a week to spend a couple hours dreaming about what we'd do with half a billion is such a fun uplifting family activity

I have heard many people say things like this and I always wonder "Instead of dreaming about buying a winning lottery ticket, why don't they just dream about finding one?"
Did you take a look at Lucia? If so, what were your thoughts on it?
In Florida insurance companies outright refuse to cover some places.
Gravity map matching is an approach that can provide absolute references, the general problem there is that gravity maps are not good enough.
The comment was edited after I commented, it was originally much less substantive, and is improved now.
> Could one derive the Earth's rotation? The motion of the solar system?

It's not a motion sensor; it's an acceleration sensor. That's an important distinction because the primary problem with IMUs is that they work of changes in velocity, and error in those measurements slowly accumulate - so they almost always need external references to correct for accumulated drift.
A human + FSD on is statistically safer than driving with it on.

People without FSD are the drunk drivers here.
I never understood how peer reviewers are supposed to "validate" a paper and how they’re tacitly thought to be doing so by the general public. Authors make claims based on data reviewers don’t have direct access to, from experiments they obviously can’t supervise the execution. They’re forced to accept the claims at face value. In my experience (and I’ve been on both sides), it’s more about overall quality and impact. Journals don’t want badly written papers on unremarkable topics. It’s closer to being a harsh anonymous editor than a real safeguard of “science™.”
The main application would obviously be missiles and autonomous military drones. If you can use GPS - you should. It's crazy cheap and it doesn't accumulate errors over time. But in a war GPS can be jammed. This can't.
By "source" do you mean training data?
"Surveying the Humanities MakerLab Movement" Whitepaper Published
paper here: https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:69557/
Interesting - I’d have thought that most of the world would’ve moved to digital by now.

Here in Germany, you can get the whole year as .ics to import into your calendar, works for most cities… usually, there are different schedules per street/neighborhood, so that’s really convenient!
Show HN: Beautiful Glitch (Procedural Art)
I have no idea why it is doing what it is doing...
Surveying the Humanities MakerLab Movement
23andme markets and sells services in the EU and is therefore subject to the GDPR. And they know this very well: https://www.23andme.com/en-eu/gdpr/
I bought this book when it first came out. Unfortunately this book required a time commitment greater than what I had available at that time and I didn't finish. It's thoroughly enjoyable (at least the first few chapters) but it requires a level of thinking that might not be available if you just finished a day of work.
They're hydroelectric dams

Silly me, I was wondering how a dam could fail to hold back a drought
Dave, below is correct. If Cloudflare places cookies on your behalf, you need to ask for consent. Most likely, you can group it as essential. If you use it for analytical purposes, you need to classify it accordingly.
Measuring a Piece of Paper [video]
Not much of a rant. You're just saying what a lot of people are thinking, so thank you for that. I am living in the most unequal country in the world, and I have gotten the bad side of it. I should not be here on hacker news. Chances were bigger for me to be dead or jailed. Bit here I am. What did that guy say? I think it's Cuban. You can fail a million times, you only need to succeed once. It's going to happen for you, don't give up.
If you're ready to settle on much lower IPC then yes.
It could be that your assessment of the safety of the system is bad.

I'm not arguing whether it is or isn't, I'm pointing out the possibility. There are lots of terrible drivers everywhere, so it can be a real one.
See the comment below yours answered in fewer words and provided more information. Berating people to read something is just noise. Improve the SNR
Anything rotating is experiencing acceleration, you can tell whether your merry-go-round is spinning or not with your eyes closed: that's the acceleration.
I don't understand this sentiment. Modern construction with lumber is great. It's cheap, relatively easy to fix/replace as needed, and a renewable resource.
"YOUR PERSONAL CELLS HAVE BEEN INFECTED WITH MUUSE-7A! THE ANTLERS WILL CONTINUE TO GROW UNTIL YOU SEND 3BTC TO THE FOLLOWING WALLET ADDRESS"
PDF, 46 pages.
End of the day, there are many belief systems that we human hold onto, but we need a method to settle opinion.

And science happens to be a certain kind of a method for settling opinion.

CS Peirce wrote about it so beautifully in his 1877 essay: "On the fixation of belief". go read it. here is a link saving you a google search. https://www.peirce.org/writings/p107.html
Heat pumps work great in hot climates. I see new builds in Texas (100f) and Arizona (115f) with them all the time.

I don’t understand the part about oversizing the heat pump for a hot climate being a downside. Without a heat pump you’d have to get an AC unit that’s sized for the heat anyways.
Do you doubt that a million iraquis died in the war that lasted almost a decade? How many people died in Ukraine or Gaza in a couple years?
What lives exactly do you mean? Because there's nothing unique about America that plenty of other countries don't have anymore, and most of us manage to spend considerably less on defence than America.
I’m sure there’s absolutely zero chance that Sam Altman would lie about that, especially now that he’s gutted all oversight and senior-level opposition.
But motor skills transfer extremely well. It's not uncommon for professional athletes to switch sports, some even repeatedly.
>For example, people spent hours exploring wikipedia, this could never be done with physical paper.

I must not understand what you're saying here. I'm envisioning someone reading an article, seeing a reference to something unfamiliar, then stopping to read another article in a nearby source about that thing or any other random topic, recursing for hours. This is easily done, and often was by children a few decades ago, with any encyclopedia set.
For second homes, mansions on the beach... totally. There are a lot of impoverished people in the area that won't be able to move though. I have no idea what will happen, but short of some sort of assisted mass-relocation, it doesn't look good.
40% year over year premium raises aren't sustainable. Are they justified? I don't think so because the legislature essentially eliminated protections against bad faith claim denials under the guise of deregulation and "tort reform" while inviting in fly-by-night insurers.
Yes, but the kinds that aren't on the market.
Retrocomputing enthusiasts in search of a cheap platform to tinker on may find interesting the VGA32, also ESP32 based, which employs the FabGL library.

https://www.lilygo.cc/products/fabgl-vga32

http://www.fabglib.org/
The parent’s point was that you don’t have to care about white space when composing code in other languages since the LSP can auto format. So you could theoretically never press return or space more than once, and always have perfectly correctly functioning and formatted code at the end.
Ah yes. Solid promises you can never verify. That companies would benefit massively from violating.

That's worth literally nothing.
My mem and pep moved back to New England from around Tampa because insurance was killin em.
I believe that we should give a shit, and it does matter. The "balkanization" of open-source licensing into more restrictive versions is ultimately going to adversely impact all of us.

And, if Matt had not chosen to be an asshole, would this issue have gotten the prominence that it has got?

Also, WPE could easily have taken the wind out of Matt's sails by declaring their (direct or indirect) commercial support for WordPress.org while reducing to pay money to Automattic. As far as I know, they have chosen to not do so.

For all I know, Matt may lose the battle; but, open source would lose the war if companies and individuals continue to use the kind of arguments that WPE and it's defenders are making - that, they are legally not obligated to care two bits about the open source software on which their entire businesses are built, leave apart what is moral.
We spend $900bn on “defense” so not really ;)
Blackpool meets London
As someone who spent 6 years at the uni in the first half of 2000’s having access to the mixture of printed and digital materials, and as someone who has to read tons of different formal and informal docs on a daily basis, I can firmly say I don’t care about the results of this study and at least they are irrelevant to me. You need to get your tasks done, research and learn anything? Use whatever medium is available and fits your needs best and allows you to yield better results in a shorter timespan.

I won’t bother printing some programming language documentation and I miss the ability to search through text in printed books.

That being said, printed books smell good, and I enjoy the typographic excellence of them every time I grab a real book.
I notice that a lot of people seem to only focus on the things that AI can't do or the cases where it breaks, and seem unwilling or incapable of focusing on things it can do.

The reality is that both things are important. It is necessary to know the limitations of AI (and keep up with them as they change), to avoid getting yourself in trouble, but if you ignore the things that AI can do (which are many, and constantly increasing), you are leaving a ton of value on the table.
Correlation is not causation. You would need to show that in the absence of that ban, nuclear would have been successful.

The "nuclear would have worked except for the meddling kids" theory needs to explain why all sorts of other destructive technologies plow right along, even in the face of massive campaigns against them. The distinguishing feature is those technologies are economic winners. Large profit flows trump activism. Unprofitable technologies don't have the stakeholders who would defend them.
Presumably enough to make it worth Apple's while to implement the option under an umbrella entitlement over tools that may help support perhaps flagging self-discipline. Presumably too, it was worth the app dev's while to go through the effort and process of implementing the assertion. I have some mild doubts about the fundamental efficacy of such an approach, but its motivation seems clear enough.

For any more than that you're asking quite the wrong person, I'm afraid. For one, I don't intuitively understand the use case; the way this works for me is that I set my phone to play reveille when I need to wake up, and when it does, I do. That makes convenient use of some early training which is all well and good for me personally, but it leaves me little able to speak to the concerns of those for whom nothing so simple can serve.
I suspect we don't want it in our day to day, removing human interaction? But it is being used in day to regardless. Eg picking the next song to play.

It seems to excel at helping people do their jobs, double checking their work, etc. It's maddening since it makes constant mistakes. But Apple should be utilizing this to make HomeKit as magical as promised -- rather than automating email, which is basically the lowest hanging copy and paste able fruit available
It’s a different one and I actually remember it better, but I didn’t want to spoil the plot twist for that story by naming it.
There wasn't a breaking wave in the Japan tsunami:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_wave

In the video you are seeing the incoming flow of water smash into structures and splash into the air.
Gels tell you quite a lot, its what question you are asking that is more relevant to the results being useful over the technique. Of course people lie and cheat in science. Wet lab and dry lab. So many dry lab papers for example are out there where code are supposedly available “by request” and we take the figures on faith.
> I find the US to be highly authoritarian, full of easy examples double-thought and duck speak.

I’m curious to know where else you have lived (I assume you live in the US). As someone that has lived under an authoritarian regime, I find this statement really hard to agree with. The US is far from perfect but it is far from authoritarian in my opinion.
I think they explained why they are disappointed
It's part of the general sentiment that you see ancient buildings built out of stone in Europe so Americans building houses out of wood (of which there are plenty of examples that are hundreds of years old) are stupid.
Yeah, US housing does feel reminiscent of the “three little pigs” story. Except that the wolf is now an actual hurricane.

Does also explain why housing is relatively cheap - just not very durable.
> how about also creating a more direct 'whistleblower' type of system

There needs to first be a system of checks and balances for this to work. The people at the top already know and condone the behavior; who are the whistleblowers reporting to?

"We represent the top scientists in our field; these are a group of grad students. Who are you going to believe?"

And of course they can easily shut anyone down with two words: "science denier"
Judgement aside,

I used the tag to see conditions of areas I wanted to visit. Like if someone tagged photos, #NationalPark, I could see how much snow was on the ground and bring the right gear.
Using Teacher-Student Models for Scalable AI: Knowledge Distillation in Action
With the increasing demand for deploying deep neural networks on resource-constrained devices, teacher-student models have emerged as a powerful tool for balancing performance and efficiency. The key mechanism here is knowledge distillation, where a large, well-trained "teacher" model transfers its learned knowledge to a smaller "student" model, helping it achieve comparable performance while significantly reducing computational overhead.

In the field of image classification, semi-supervised approaches are also gaining traction, with datasets like YFCC-100M and IG-1B-Targeted fueling research. By leveraging billions of unlabeled images alongside labeled data, researchers have demonstrated that student models trained in this way can achieve state-of-the-art results with reduced training costs.

Has anyone in the community explored applying this approach to domains like NLP or speech recognition? What are your thoughts on its scalability in production environments?
Did it really though? Ideological censorship has been on the rise for awhile. Books might only be occasionally banned but that's because their relevance in the modern zeitgeist has waned. The privatization of the public square has nonetheless meant that moderation of communication has become widespread and politically charged.
If you want to hand wring about future changes you don't need to look at dubious inference of risk from DNA. Just consider cancellation of insurance policies if you come down with some illness that requires expensive long term treatment.
Totally possible. I did it too. Hung around too long in the same position, though. Now I'm a middle-aged and unemployed Server Admin. The outlook is not great. Don't do that.

If you're just starting out, IT Technician jobs are a good place to start. Replace some RAM, Install printer drivers etc.

The rest is up to you.
This is the greatest misconception in this field. Weights are not a binary form! In fact you can't "run" the weights as they are. They only represent some fixed values.

Whenever you use an LLM you "load" the weights, using (usually open source) code and you run inference with that code. The weights are not binary and the analogy to the binary form of distributing software is not valid, IMO.

That is why I used the analogy of a python code with ifs all the way, based on hardcoded values. That is what you are arguing is not open source. The weights are just "hardcoded values".

Open source never had the requirement of the author explaining what, why or how they got a hardcoded value in their shared code. Why it suddenly does for LLMs is what I find funny.
I agree that for CPU-only tasks, Lunar Lake has ample available memory bandwidth, but high memory latency.

However, the high memory bandwidth is intended mainly for the benefit of its relatively big GPU, which might have been able to use even higher memory throughputs.
> the role of diverse experiences and cross-pollination of ideas

Add to this: giving room for ideas to grow: the more you wait, the more diverse and numerous the life experiences, all of them having the potential to shape those uncrystallized ideas.
I think that depends on when you used their service. In the last 5 years, then yes, probably very naive. 23andMe was founded at a different point in time, where things looked more optimistic, funding was a different game and we worried less about companies misusing our personal information.

It might not be a huge disaster, but to me the issue is that the company can't make any real promises about how they might profit from the DNA of it's customers in the future. It's not a problem unique to 23andMe, I will never sign up to another social network, because of Facebooks behavior. I'll never sign up to another service such as Gmail, Outlook, YouTube or Reddit, because I've seen what those companies did and how they behaved I can no longer trust any online service. The trust that existed in the early 2000s is gone, the idea that if we didn't like something we could just leave and delete everything is gone. I don't envy someone trying to bootstrap a new service, the previous generation of companies have poisoned the well.
How about the rest of the eastern US? Billion dollar climate disasters are hitting everything, not just coastal cities in Florida and WUI towns in California. There was just massive flooding in Tennessee due to Hurricane Helene - are they at fault for living in "hurricane country"?

Climate related disasters are intensifying everywhere. What's now "inevitable" may have been unthinkable when some of these folks moved there.
> All of these experts were preaching the virtues of Western free-trade to the east when they were the ones exporting TO Asia 10 years ago

10 years ago? Try 40-50 years ago.
Maybe, the newcomers have learnt the lessons from the travails of the old open source projects? That doesn't mean that the oldies should just suck it and keep quiet.
And well for both earthquakes and volcanoes the effected areas are now well known. It could be set that simply any new building moving forwards is not covered. There is plenty enough space in areas with lower risks, so people should be directed towards there. Eventually this will naturally empty the risk prone areas.
The perils of transition to 64-bit time_t
What you're saying makes sense for a small startup with 20 people. Have you worked in an org of 10000+ that's been around for 30 years? Where the people who built the systems no longer work there? Where the people who maintain them are 3+ career cycles removed? Things get so baked in "one doesn't simply make changes" because no one person understands how everything works, so you do your best and keep closing tickets. "Hey we should really investigate whether or not passwords are included in memory in our 2000 severs across the globe!" "Lol ok maybe when you close out the 30 tickets on your plate."
We had a test of this when a tornado hit Czechia some time ago.

I think only the smaller commie blocks remained structurally sound.
People should, don’t get me wrong, respect the marks of open source projects. If I were reselling a commercial fork of an open source project Foobar, I would not be comfortable putting “FB” or “Foobar” in the name. I’m honestly on board with the Apache Foundation guidelines, where you’re not even supposed to say that Foobar is what you’re selling - it’s a proprietary service with a proprietary name which happens to be powered by Foobar.

But the idea of an enforceable trademark right to stop people from accurately describing their derivative services is another thing where people often don’t want to hear the clear answer. Companies typically go much further than what’s actually required to avoid infringement, because frustrating the open source community you depend on isn’t worth the relatively modest benefits. The Wordpress dynamic is different, because their mark is already licensed to a commercial vendor and already causes routine confusion in that context.
Those USA ones would be a 2-3 centuries old at most, no?

When living in EU, there was a church about 5 minutes waking distance that was ~900 years old lol
You might want to adjust the input elements to include autocapitalize="none" for mobile visitors.

It also couldn't seem to load my repo - pretty sure I didn't typo it so wondering if you might've hit rate limits? The GitHub API has fairly low limits, particularly if you're using a PAT instead of an oauth app.

Edit: it's working for me now
Perhaps, but the "does it leak?" bar is at least easy to qualify.
Doubt is not a strategy and nay-saying rarely moves a conversation forward.

My comment was not intended to illicit the abdication of responsibility - quite the reverse.

Where was my petitioning? Your response is combative, seemingly intended to be personally offensive and built on a straw-man argument, likely the result of a multitude of others treating your opinions like crap. I'm not them...

You are absolutely right, agency and the realisation of it is a key component to shifting us out of this mess. I put significant daily effort into building an alternative kind of personal existence, at significant personal cost. I attempt to carry as much of this as I can since I recognise my own complicity in this mess.
I don't have post-secondary education, but I have always enjoyed learning new things and mastering interesting concepts and challenges.

Technology fits my predisposition just fine. It's always changing, so I'm always learning.

I started out by making a website for a girlfriend's business 25 years ago, enjoyed it, and just kept on going.

Nowadays I have worked at on important projects and products for some of the most well known companies pushing the boundaries of technology forward.

It turns out that soft kills are extremely important, and self mastery is a powerful skill. As powerful in some cases as knowing how to twiddle bits or predict the results of a left-outer SQL join.

Learning how to enjoy learning, and how to work effectively alone and with others cannot be replaced by a diploma on the wall. The diploma may serve as evidence that one has been tested and proved to have the qualities necessary to acquire the diploma, but absence of the diploma is not proof of the absence of those qualities.

Develop yourself. You will be rewarded.
Ah thanks for the link. I’ve been trying to recall the name of the phenomena for ages and it’s always been just on the tip of my tongue.
The problem is simplifying into the same word "science" both the scientific method (with a pretty good track record, though it does have some blind spots), and groups of people claiming to engage in it (the tendency of which is to become corrupt, the faster the more powerful they are).
Should we extend this logic to charging California climate tax every summer, when their inevitable wildfire pollutes the air for two states over?
Your deduction from this that they are trying to pass of the content as news is actually crazy.
Maybe you can get an idea with the MTREES Invention Game:

https://chatgpt.com/g/g-g6NcO9PxI-mtrees-r-funny-invention-g...

custom trained chatGPT
It truly is in the eye of the beholder