skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Typically when a person is hired for a tenure-track professorship at a university, that person doesn’t immediately start out with tenure, which is a status that means the professor cannot be fired without cause. Rather, most professors start out as assistant professors who have six years to prove to the university and their peers that they can meet the university’s bar regarding research productivity, teaching, and service (to the university, the community, the discipline the professor researches, and society). During the sixth year of employment the university evaluates the professor’s contributions and then decides whether to grant that professor tenure. If the professor is granted tenure, then the professor is usually promoted to associate professor and doesn’t need to worry about getting fired except in cases of misconduct (e.g., a professor taking an unapproved vacation in the middle of the semester; a professor having an inappropriate relationship with a student, postdoc, or advisee; a professor caught plagiarizing, etc.), though layoffs could still happen. However, if a professor is denied tenure, while there is usually an appeals process, the professor isn’t allowed to stay at that university beyond the end of the sixth year, and so the professor must move on, either to another university or often to another career.
An app to let people generate images of them and their children in Halloween costumes.

Similar to PhotoAI but much more limited in scope. Wanted to get more experience implementing auth and payments, creating LoRAs, and some different regulations.

Also wanted something that was timeboxed where I could step away when the project is over.

Should be ready to start accepting users next week, then will have to figure out distribution. If I make any money it will be a cherry on top.
You just described the average human podcast (that's not on a Top 100 list). :)

The output reminds me of any number of new marketing podcasts that are still trying to find their footing.
I've been working on https://github.com/cloudboss/easyto, a tool that converts docker images to EC2 AMIs.

I've also written some Terraform modules that deploy machines from images created with easyto.

One is https://registry.terraform.io/modules/cloudboss/airport/aws, for managing Concourse CI.

Another is https://registry.terraform.io/modules/cloudboss/tailscale-su..., to quickly spin up a tailscale instance in a VPC.
One insight I’ve gleaned from working on this project is that I’m convinced web dev will trend towards well-designed and modular components with accessible state and mutators.

LLMs will then have a set of these components to dynamically route and build interfaces with.

Component libraries are already popular and more time will be spent inside of them than managing the glue that is outside.
Working on a library that helps benchmark Active Learning (AL) techniques [1]. This is a form of Machine Learning, where you want to learn a supervised predictor but you don't have labels to start with, and labeling comes at a cost that you need to account for (the term AL can have broader connotations but this is the popular one). We feel the area suffers quite a bit from poor benchmarks, which my colleague and I wrote up about in a paper [2]. To run the many experiments in the paper we had to write a fairly comprehensive codebase that makes it convenient to swap out different bits and pieces of an AL pipeline, which we'll be polishing up now.

PS: If the work is of interest and you want to avoid reading the paper, I have a blogpost too [3].

[1] https://github.com/ThuongTNguyen/active_learning_comparisons

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.15744 (this was accepted in EMNLP'24)

[3] https://blog.quipu-strands.com/inactive_learning
You're going to attribute even a small % of this to politicians rather than the actual innovators? Sure, then let's say they're responsible for some small % of its success. They're smart enough to not nuke their own economy.
shapez 2 is awesome! Definitely give it a shot if you liked the first.
A non-toxic, intelligent, trustworthy successor to the web that works offline, called The World Wide Scroll. https://wws.scroll.pub/readme.html
From the abstract of the actual paper:

> Yet, as we formally prove herein, creating systems with human(-like or -level) cognition is intrinsically computationally intractable.

Wow. So is this the subject of the paper? Like, this is a massive, fundamental result. Nope, the paper is about "Reclaiming AI as a Theoretical Tool for Cognitive Science".

"Ah and by the way we prove human-like AI is impossible". Haha. Gosh.
What are you getting at? Is a state government supposed to be profitable? LOL
It's intentional. I'm just tossing out ridiculous ideas for a ridiculous use of electricity.
> This is an oft-stated thing that I oft-disagree with. It states that engineers ought to be subordinate to PMs, which shouldn't always be the case.

I think of it more as a partnership.

If I’m in charge of getting groceries and you’re in charge of budgets, we need to have an informed discussion on what exactly is our budget and what food we need so we don’t starve. Sure I could blow the whole budget on steak and I might even love eating nothing but steak for 3 days, but eventually some carbs would be nice. Likewise neither of us will be happy if I go max stingy and buy nothing but bags of rice for the week.

The reason I think PMs should make the final call is not that engineers are subordinate, it’s that PMs are accountable. (RACI – responsible, accountable, consulted, informed). The person whose ass is on the line makes the call.

Usually when I ask engineers if they want to be accountable for making the call (and its outcome), things get real quiet real fast :)
There was one interchangeable lens attempt, and multiple non interchangeable ones. As mentioned, the Samsung galaxy camera, as well as Polaroid branded android cameras.

You need the large protrusion on the right because you have to hold the thing. It’s a handle. It needs to be somewhere, most people are right eye, right hand dominant. It makes a lot of sense to have it that way. The primary hand holds the camera, the other hand holds and supports the lens.

In the olden days, the film canister was physically stored on the left in almost all cameras (and certainly in all SLRs), so the protrusion on the right isn’t really a remnant of film designs.

Older film cameras actually have smaller less ergonomic protrusions on the right (look at a Nikon F2 vs. the modern Z8). The big ergonomic protrusion on the right has been an evolution of newer modern technology and expectations.

You can get a camera with gps, wifi, Bluetooth etc. do they have you screens that don’t have multitouch? It’s pretty hard not to get all that TBH. I can do crops and color treatments on my Nikon if I don’t want to just transfer directly to my phone and do the editing there. Yeah, the camera doesn’t automatically put it all in my iPhoto, but that is literally just a few taps.

There are MILC cameras that have minimal physical controls and touchscreens so I’m not really sure what you’re looking for? The sigma FP is pretty minimal, and you just strap on what you need.
And how do you plan to measure their benefit to society without using money as a signal?
how would you rank the states you have lived in by those metrics(social programming + doing good for the people)?
This is the RAG (Retrieval-Augmentation) tool for Google Docs that I've been waiting for.

It's like Perplexity for your personal docs.
That's not right, either.

They're paying $2.35 in hopes that the $1/year customer sticks around for more than a few months.
Thanks. We did discuss this on HN a few years ago and I added a few comments, starting here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12048693

I continued to work on that project for a while afterwards, but I don’t think my overall views on the pros and cons of the literate style changed much from what I wrote there.

If there’s anything you’re particularly curious about, I’m happy to discuss further (though my professional experience was limited to that one project, so I’m hardly an expert).
For America...do we dare unpack that sentiment?
The state has one of the highest illiteracy rates in the whole country (28%). To me, that implies they have some issue of governance.

Source: https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/us-literacy...

To be fair in the comparison, the literacy statistics for the whole of the US are pretty shocking from a European perspective.
When Bitcoin was doing this, people were raising an alarm

But AI fans will shrug and say “this has always been happening, AI is nothing new”. The usual refrain.

Also, AI is way more useful than blockchain etc etc.
Mind sharing the resource material? I've looked into this briefly, seems like a common-ish path for flat bed trucks is using a surplus S-280 (e.g. https://www.ramims.com/products/S-280C-G).

I really like both:

- https://www.dirttrailswanted.com/overland-peanut (S-280 route)

- https://wabisabioverland.com/ (custom build, both in house and contracted through: https://totalcomposites.com/)
I don’t think telling those people ‘learn how to recognize no’ is going to make much of a difference.
How do you decide who "them" is, that should pay more?

Usually you do the opposite: In exchange for a lower rate you will be the first disconnected in an emergency.
California is the largest recipient of federal money.

https://usafacts.org/articles/which-states-rely-the-most-on-...

(I know by population it will be different, but the argument here is around 'one of the the biggest' which is not a per capita statement.)

> Objectively, there are many states that are far worse off in any key metric

You can apply the same logic to USA.

USA is one of the biggest most successful countries in the world. Like every where else it has it's problems but it's being run just fine. Objectively, there are many countries that are far worse off in any key metric.
We don't have proper language, but certainly we've improved. Even since Peirce. You're right that many people are not well versed in the philosophical and logician discussions as to what reasoning is (and sadly this lack of literature review isn't always common in the ML community), but I'm not convinced Peirce solved it. I do like that there are many different categories of reasoning and subcategories.

> All of the above is old hat to the AI winter era guys. But amusingly their reputations have been destroyed much the same as Peirce's was, by dissatisfied government bureaucrats.

Yeah, this has been odd. Since a lot of their work has shown to be fruitful once scaled. I do think you need a combination of theory people + those more engineering oriented, but having too much of one is not a good thing. It seems like now we're overcorrecting and the community is trying to kick out the theorists. By saying things like "It's just linear algebra"[0] or "you don't need math"[1] or "they're black boxes". These are unfortunate because they encourage one to not look inside and try to remove the opaqueness. Or to dismiss those that do work on this and are bettering our understanding (sometimes even post hoc saying it was obvious).

It is quite the confusing time. But I'd like to stop all the bullshit and try to actually make AGI. That does require a competition of ideas and not everyone just boarding the hype train or have no careers....

[0] You can assume anyone that says this doesn't know linear algebra

[1] You don't need math to produce good models, but it sure does help you know why your models are wrong (and understanding the meta should make one understand my reference. If you don't, I'm not sure you're qualified for ML research. But that's not a definitive statement either).
This is going to be the tabs vs spaces argument of the 21st century.
That’s what bitcoin maxis always said when their rigs were overloading the grid. “Build us more capacity, and stop whining!”
This is covered in the video.
Newsom wants to run for president in 4 years; AI companies will be rich in 4 years; Newsom will need donations from rich companies in 4 years.
Older macos had bluetooth->advanced settings to keep bluetooth from turning on if there is no keyboard/etc
I'm writing a book publicly: Automated Agents [1].
When I first joined a startup building a chatbot for customer service, there was a lot of noise and hype. We built a decent product and our company went from 3 people to 30 in 2 years. We resolved millions of customer service issues. The book I'm writing is the guide I wish existed when I was getting started.

It's still a draft, but the main goal is to serve as a guide for both technical and non technical folks.

[1]: https://github.com/ibudiallo/automated-agents-book

Ps: I shared it in the previous thread last month as well
This would be nice. I gave up on trying to do things externally a long time ago. I get wildly demotivated and deeply believe all I ever do is waste people's time and irritate them.
PG used to write interesting essays, like the recently reposted one about programs you can keep in your head. His later work suffers in my estimation from being too obviously motivated. He’s trying to bend reality by convincing more kids to throw themselves into the startup furnace that fuels his wealth. “The very rich are no longer human” as William Gibson put it.
VPNs, right?
The most defined example would probably be Apartheid South Africa. Despite being in a weak position, having few resources, and dealing with constant losses, the ANC were so successful in harassing the National Party over three decades that the National Party finally ceded power in 1993. This was enabled by radio broadcasts, fast printing, and starting in the late 1970s digital espionage. Information and the spread of information was tightly controlled by the National Party, which is one of the three major reasons why it took so long and why slow erosion was the only viability rather than full immediate revolution.
Very hard to do in practice.
I'm super skeptical about online degree programs.
Although it seems you're enjoying it; gl!
https://chillin.online, Next-Gen AI Video & Motion Editor, no watermark, faster than competitors such as Veed, Clipchamp, Capcut, mobile support
Pretty sure anyone who tries can build an ai with capabilities indistinguishable from or better than humans.
I've been working on drone fleet control software from scratch, could definitely use some help. Right now I'm looking for algos that optimizes for long straightaways for pathfinding.
more:

- Environment, Containers and package management baked in with nice UX. Python (the most popular language today) has a very fractured ecosystem with conda, venv, virtualenv, pipenv etc. Replace these with using uv+ruff (as they are FOSS) baked into the IDE.
I like reading (esp. Observer and Economist) and writing obituaries.

When I was working for Reuters, I saw how they have draft obituaries ready for all living celebrities, which have to be constantly updated -- until folks actually pass away. The purpose is to be able to post obituaries within seconds after a person's death.

At some point I designed an API for them to order people by the "update-worthiness" of their obitary drafts: using features like age, popularity, rate of change.

It is a healthy practice not to ignore/block out death but to make it part of one's life; society forgot that in recent decades (e.g. we no longer keep the departed at home for relatives to get used to the fact that they are no longer alive, but still be able to look at them when mourning).
Hands are weird, both on the man as well as the lady on the bench.
For any others reading this, the _illiteracy_ rate is 23.1% in California according to the parent's source. This is indeed the highest illiteracy rate in the US thought.

Having said that, I would have thought this was partially a measure of migration. Perhaps illegal migration?
Seattle Building Edible Forest Filled with Free Food
Do AI companies work?
Just finished a third short story.

It is about SEO: https://github.com/jaronilan/stories/blob/main/Duplicitous.p...
I had a small issue with Syncthing-Fork on Android. The app defaults to having silent notifications so when I shared a new folder from other computer I didn't noticed it on my Android device and I thought it wasn't working because notifications are the only way you can accept and configure new share. Nothing else shows up even though I had the app opened all the time I was doing that.
A few months ago I started a job where I inherited a JS code base that is around 250,000 lines. It was one big class, with several sub classes, that did everything. Some files were 30k lines long.

No frameworks, no reactivity. If you click a button, you had to update everything on the screen with event listeners manually.

Took the guy years to write it. It's like a monk got locked in a cell for years with a basic book of javascript.

I started by refactoring into web components, because I had to do it piecemeal. It's been a big help, and I've cut 50k lines of code so far. But the real point was to just learn everything the old code was doing before I start a rewrite.
The relationship to the internet we had with dialup was healthier.
Hey everyone! I wanted to share what I’ve been working on lately: an app called Unlearn Stress [1] on iOS [2] and Android [3]. It came out of my own struggles with stress and trying to find ways to cope. Some days are just rough and while I’ve had some luck with doctors, I’ve found that stories, especially ones read in my own voice, and breathing exercises really help lift my mood. The app is simple, works completely offline and there’s no data collection like other apps.

My next idea is to use SSML to better control some of the speech and add delays where needed.

[1] https://www.excsn.com/apps/unlearn_stress

[2] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/unlearn-stress-with-stories/id...

[3] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.excsn.andr...
>> Since when does Mexico hate America?

Most of the people coming here illegally now are not from Mexico. Some of the last ICE numbers I saw, border patrol had over 150 countries represented and none of them were Mexico. It is true that Mexican cartels who employ Coyotes do account for the majority of the trafficking since they control all the major routes into this country. All of these illegals are violating the Safe Country asylum rule and the majority of people who are seen for asylum cases are rejected and deported anyways.

>> Mexicans living in American tend to be very hardworking and friendly.

They also remit billions back to Mexico which never make into our economy:

Mexicans living and working abroad sent $63.31 billion home last year, a 7.6% increase compared to 2022. Remittances out of Mexico increased 19.5% last year to total $1.05 billion, or just 1.7% of the incoming amount.

Most of the incoming money — 99% of which was wired electronically in transfers that averaged $393 per transaction — came from the United States, where millions of Mexicans live.

https://mexiconewsdaily.com/business/mexicans-sent-us-63b-ho...
For those who don't know SERV is a serial RISC-V architecture - really small, fits in a Tiny Tapeout tile

https://github.com/olofk/serv
Too much efficiency countering too much efficiency makes everything worse.

This whole thesis easily tips over into a semantic gobbledygook, as efficiency is not a property of the larger world, but an utter contrivance of thought.

Focus on anything to the exclusion of everything use and things are going wrong. How has the obviousness of this observation has turned into a breakthrough? AI is the perfect nexus for such a discovery: trying to optimize a system when you don't understand how it works naturally has pitfalls.

So what can it mean to try to mathematically formalize a misunderstanding? Maybe there's a true breakthrough lurking near this topic: that all understanding is incomplete, so look for guiding principles of approximation?

The author is right to call out the forest for the trees.

—

Web Design: The First 100 Years

https://idlewords.com/talks/web_design_first_100_years.htm

How the SR71 Blackbird Works

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gkyVZxtsubM
https://www.voyago.io/ is a social travel discovery platform that matches your interests with your friends for perfect recommendations
I'm working on an extension to the Modify in blocks Model Synthesis algorithm [0] and the Wave Function Collapse algorithm [1] called "Punch Out Model Synthesis":

https://github.com/zzyzek/PunchOutModelSynthesis

Here's a gallery of sample outputs from the algorithm:

https://github.com/zzyzek/PunchOutModelSynthesis/blob/main/r...

I have an online demo of the algorithm in action for different tilesets (it's a little rough, so be warned):

https://zzyzek.github.io/PunchOutModelSynthesis/

The idea is you take an example image, chop it into little segments and infer tile rules depending on the overlap. It's very much old fashioned "machine learning/artificial intelligence" (that is, without any neural networks involved). There's also a demo of tile rule inference idea here:

https://zzyzek.github.io/TileRuleHighlighter/

[0] https://github.com/mxgmn/WaveFunctionCollapse

[1] https://github.com/merrell42/model-synthesis
The data you're showing doesn't appear to differentiate between "Can read English" and "Can read in some language". Big immigrant population, same with New York. Having grown up in California I can tell you that there aren't 28% of kids coming out of public school who can't read anything.

Edit to add: my own hometown had a lot of people who couldn't speak English. Lots of elderly mothers of Chinese immigrants whose adult children were in STEM and whose own kids were headed to uni. Not to say that's representative, but consider that a single percentage stat won't give you an accurate picture of what's going on.
You mean this part of my comment:

>> The shell performs [...] arithmetic expansion, command substitution [...] on those words.

> [...] and that command substitution is peformed after arithmetic expansion in `[[` [...]

You're right. That doesn't apply. I was equating "arithmetic expansion" with "evaluation of arithmetic expressions", but I see now the former is specifically about `$(())`.
Twitter probably over censored the story. Considering all of the crazy demonstrably fake news surrounding this, I can see how handling this was probably difficult to get right.

If the right wing wants to stop getting over censored, maybe they should hold themselves a little more accountable to the mass amounts of fake news they share.

But again. Hunter Biden was not running for president. The right is still pushing fake news (Ohio) as part of their campaigns.
Scaling out power infrastructure is capital intensive and time consuming.

Why would you do that when there is a strong likelihood that most of these LLM startups will be out of business within the next year or two.
Is it possible to specify locked glibc and cc/linking toolchain in your Bazel project?
Navidrome: Open-Source Music Server and Streamer – Subsonic/Airsonic Compatible
It wasn’t so much the code that I found less discoverable with the literate style, more the relevant documentation when reading any given part of the code. I found the linear flow didn’t really lend itself to quickly finding all relevant commentary about any given piece of code, since it tends to encourage building up a “big picture” and so there could easily be comments much earlier in any given chapter/file that were relevant to later code but with no obvious way to know that and find them short of reading the whole thing from front to back.
Have you looked at the way that ants do it?

Depending on fleet size, you'd get some useful emergent properties from a mesh-net.
Launching a billion dollar rocket is far easier to solve than the problems you're listing.

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“If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.”

John von Neumann
Alpha Zero's "Alien" Chess Shows the Power, and the Peculiarity, of AI (2017)