skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> With react you are more productive, my web experience is worse than without a those frameworks.

You cannot begin to know that for sure and really makes little to no sense if you think about it.

As with the anti-electron crowd the options are not:

* Electron app

or

* Bespoke, hand-crafted, made with love, native app

The options are normally “electron app” or “nothing”.

Same deal here. Taking away React/Angular/Vue won’t magically make people write more performant websites. I’m sure people bitched about (and continue to) PHP for making it easy for people to create websites that aren’t performant or Wordpress for all its flaws. It’s the same story that’s repeated over and over in tech circles and I find it both silly and incredibly short-sighted. Actually I find it tiring because you can always go one level deeper to one-up these absurd statements. It’s No True Scotsman all the way down.
No. The pixels still need a transfer step
The 7 Levels of Delegation (2015)
Let me guess. All of this is to say that you leaned into eating saturated fat, got high cholesterol, and because nothing happened in 10 years, the converging lines of evidence that constantly replicate over a half century are wrong.

Or maybe you started smoking and because there were no RCTs on smoking, then nobody can actually know if it's bad for you, but your N=1 has more epistemic value because you feel okay.

Just getting flashbacks from those hokey "carnivore diet" videos that Youtube keeps wanting me to watch.
I see a near future scam where people seek out genetic material of the wealthy to create children so that they can sue them for child support.

Imagine someone doing this to the judge that ruled they owe child support for their child from a previous marriage out of spite.
And still building houses out of toothpicks.
guilty as charged !

But Bohm's "On Creativity", to me presents a much deeper "philosophical" take on a) what is creativity and b) how to foster it. And I dont see it referenced in this text at all.

Again, since this is about persuation, it is what the reader wants to believe.
I completely disagree with you. The fundamental problem with your concept of open source is it goes against what open source really is. The ability for you to completely change what a piece of software can do. IMO, even with LLMs, models are "executables" and weights are "configuration". Yes, of course you can tune the weights by changing the values, but that's the most I can do. Can I actually add "features" to the model? Perhaps you "open-sourced" an LLM model trained on the United States Constitution. Can I change the model to then be a specialist in real estate law? Not with weights. I need it to learn case histories to extend its "feature-set". Without data and the mechanism to reproduce the model, how is this "open-source"?
The NIST stuff is great and quite detailed. They just released the 4th edition: https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-4/

I find it a bit dry and abstract, though.
> uncanny valley

I've been playing Nightingale and, oh boy, is the ocean water something special there. To be clear, they don't tackle spray and such by keeping the waves calm, which has allowed them to focus on other things. Whatever it is they are doing to simulate light transmission is working. The light shining through the waves at sunrise or sunset looks great and really sells the effect for me.

It could maybe be accused of being a bit painterly, but it doesn't look wrong.
Seriously go read the link and answer your own question. It's literally there on the linked page.

I mean if the linked page didn't include the information, sure asking is fine.
This article just talks about the history that's happened since Carter was born. It doesn't say much at all about Jimmy himself.
what I'm missing from a physical book is the ability to pipe it through ollama and directly ask questions about where to find the info

I'm doing this with man pages today but as LLMs get better solving this kind of search problem seems like a major application
Well put! Well, the first sentence is -- I think there's ample evidence that chatbots are creative in the same manner as humans, for the simple reason that they speak coherently. I'm sure we all remember pre-2023 chatbots, which were cute but ultimately produced gibberish; the current chatbots reach the same limits if given a hard enough task, which I think is fantastic evidence that they are ineffably creative before that limit.

In Chomsky's words, quoting Wilhelm von Humboldt:

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation. The normal use of language and the acquisition of language depend on what Humboldt calls the fixed form of language, a system of generative processes that is rooted in the nature of the human mind and constrains but does not determine the free creations of normal intelligence or, at a higher and more original level, of the great writer or thinker...
The many modern critics who sense an inconsistency in the belief that free creation takes place within – presupposes, in fact – a system of constraints and governing principles are quite mistaken; unless, of course, they speak of “contradiction” in the loose and metaphoric sense of Schelling, when he writes that “without the contradiction of necessity and freedom not only philosophy but every nobler ambition of the spirit would sink to that death which is peculiar to those sciences in which that contradiction serves no function.” Without this tension between necessity and freedom, rule and choice, there can be no creativity, no communication, no meaningful acts at all.

- https://chomsky.info/language-and-freedom/
https://www.warmplace.ru/soft/sunvox/manual.php#ctlauto

It seems it's possible
It amazing that governments gives new building permits in such areas.
Applies both is USA and Canada. Some areas near Montreal are know to be in the flood zone for centuries, yet I see new constructions popping here and there. Not a lot, but not zero.
And then we, as all taxpayers, foot the bill.
I think many people like to believe that solving puzzles will somehow make them better at combinatorics. Lateral skill transfer in non-motor skills e.g. office works, academics works etc may not be any better than motor skills. It's easier to convince people that playing soccer everyday wouldn't make them any better at cricket, or even hockey.
The person I was responding to.
Negligence

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tort#Negligence
See Solvespace for that.
The problem is my back and forth with Claude is just Claude's data not available to any other. Unlike stack overflow which is fair game for every AI.
You didn't quote a random tweet. You quoted a racist, right-wing, anti-immigrant account.

Even if you're just quoting someone else, there is a message in what you choose to quote. There are a million other ways to make this point, if it's even a valid one.
A bit off topic, can someone suggest how I can learn more about using databases(postgres specifically) in real world applications? I am familiar with SQL and common ORMs, but I feel the internet is full of beginner level tutorials which lack this depth.
They could sell the organs back to you when you need one. Or the whole body for a brain transplant.

(This was a plot point in a sci-fi story I vaguely remember.)
I now use an application called WordTime and it opens instantly. Unfortunately is seems no longer supported and it has some quirks.

Pages is really very slow in comparison to open files. Also Pages can also export to docx, not save. Another hurdle in working with docx files.
I need an example and an explanation of what problem is being solved.

Pages of dense text with lots of jargon, like a recent K8s course I've been doing are just something I find utterly useless for learning unless it involves a good amount of accompanying hands-on learning.
Yeah, I see what you mean, like if I want to find for instance "a sub milliampere X" but in the pdf it only says uA then it would be impossible for an LLM to suggest that
Counterpoint: that makes you rewrite it for every architecture and every datatype. A high level language makes it a lot easier to get something more readable, runable everywhere, and datatype generic.
Is this the newest form of protest after Satya tried to burn the company to the ground? Throwing the toy away and saying "I don't want to play with this anymore, it's! It's a pump and dump"?
I have lived in South Florida, close to the Atlantic ocean for close to 40 years. In the time I have lived here, the insect populations have noticeably dropped. I have also queried relatives from the midwest. It used to be every summer your car would get covered with dead bugs, not so any more.
As for plastics in the ocean, every time I go to the beach I see a lot of macro plastics.
The importance of the matrix multiplication algorithm is precisely due to the fact that it is the main algorithm where the ratio between computational operations and memory transfers can be very large, therefore the memory bandwidth is not a bottleneck for it.

The right way to express a matrix multiplication is not that wrongly taught in schools, with scalar products of vectors, but as a sum of tensor products between the column vectors of the first matrix with those row vectors of the second matrix that share with them the same position of the element on the main diagonal of the matrix.

Computing a tensor product of two vectors, with the result accumulated in registers, requires a number of memory loads equal to the sum of the lengths of the vectors, but a number of FMA operations equal to the product of the lengths (i.e. for square matrices of size NxN, there are 2N loads and N^2 FMA for one tensor product, which multiplied with N tensor products give 2N^2 loads and N^3 FMA operations for the matrix multiplication).

Whenever the lengths of both vectors are are no less than 2 and at least one length is no less than 3, the product is greater than the sum. With greater vector lengths, the ratio between product and sum grows very quickly, so when the CPU has enough registers to hold the partial sum, the ratio between the counts of FMA operations and of memory loads can be very great.
Three past discussions with discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18046745 - Sept 22, 2018 (132 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31465368 - May 22, 2022 (23 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33162971 - Oct 11, 2022 (96 comments)
> but they can edit simple docx, xlsx, and pptx files.

No, open yes (taking some time to do conversions) but not save, only export.
We’ve had other discussions of these sort of quantum compass ideas, see

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40692333

for example.

I can never quite wrap my head around it or figure out if they are all the same idea, or what, and what exactly the idea is.

In particular, the article soften describe something that “could replace GPS.” But then they start taking about compasses, and things that sound a lot like IMUs. Integrating accelerations is well known as a bad way of keeping track of position over longer timescales due to catastrophic cancellation. A more accurate IMU might let you do it for a little longer, but eventually you need an absolute reference point to correct your drift.

But then, sometimes there are references to making very careful measurements of the change in the gravitational field. So maybe those could act as landmarks or something?

I wish there was an article for people who, like, had a control theory or signal processing class, but it was too early in the morning and not very interesting.
I assume anytime a company says they will delete my data that they will just remove the ability for me to access it.
Discouraged about coming up with startup ideas
About me:

1. I am old(er), old enough to have lived the dot-com era, and I loved it.

2. My background is checkered between entrepreneurship and working in high-tech companies.

I remember the mid 90(s), I had a cushy job but the Internet was happening out there. So I desperately sought a position at one of those high-flying dot-coms, I landed at one, I was employee #30, within a few months we were 300 employees, and those 2.5 years were incredible.

I knew that the internet was going to change the world, but now, looking in retrospect, I can see that it changed the world a lot more than anyone ever thought.

I am sure that AI will change the world a lot more than the Internet ever did.

I am - again - desperately trying to get a job at a AI startup, unsuccessfully so. And - of course - I am not quitting.

At the same time I am brainstorming AI startup ideas, but I must confess that I can't come up with nothing exciting / innovating (my bad).

I am very familiar with Paul Graham essays, with "The Innovator's dilemma", and "The Lean Startup Methodology"; I have successfully applied all three in the past.

One peculiarity that I see about comparing the AI revolution to the dot-com revolution is that back in the days small(er) companies were embracing the Internet; while the large companies were oblivious. In 1995 I convinced my $20MM company to do e-commerce and VoIP.

Today I see large companies covertly adopting AI, while small(er) companies are oblivious.

And my frustrations are with myself (failure to create), and also with the marketplace:

1. Most AI companies that I see are nothing more than wrapping up ChatGPT in a single-use pretty interface.

2. I stopped using Google as soon as perplexity came along, and how come perplexity is not exploding the way that Yahoo/Google did back in the days?

3. Where are my easy to use and customizable AI agents? I played with AutoGPT but as it stands today it's above my technical abilities (I am in operations, not a real techie). Maybe this should be my unicorn start up idea?

Thank you for listening to my rant. Looking forward to read the comments.
Give Drambo and Bitwig a try.
> Could one derive the Earth's rotation?

Yes, existing gyroscopes are sensitive enough for that. In 1966, one of the first Soviet attempts to launch the Soyuz failed on the pad because the guidance system remained active after a scrubbed launch attempt. After a couple of hours, the Earth had rotated enough such that the guidance system thought it was off-course, triggering the still-armed launch escape system.

> The motion of the solar system?

This system, probably not. This class of system at lab scale, maybe eventually. It seems that the galaxy's gravitational acceleration on the solar system is on the order of 10^-10 m/s (https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/12/201203133906.h...), so about 10 pico-g. The article says that cold atom interferometers have current sensitivities in the nano-g range but could still potentially improve.

> By watching vibrations could it be a microphone?

With that kind of sensitivity, making it not be a microphone is probably the harder task. However, the sensitivity doesn't necessarily make it a good microphone, since detecting a small signal is useless if the signal-to-noise ratio is too low.
Ask HN: How to thrive in tech without post-secondary education?
Are there any of you who did not have any post-secondary education in any disciplines and found success in tech? What was your journey? Would you recommend people to follow your path?

My aim for this question is not to have someone use this post to justify that they should not attend college or university. My advice still leans towards an education to expand their minds and to make human connections. I also acknowledge that formal education does not work for some people.

During my career, I met several folks who fell into tech during or right after high school. They enjoyed the work and decided to start working at 18 or 19. By their mid-20s, they had earned a few years of real-world experience when people in the same age bracket were still finding their place in the profession.

Here are rough stories from two folks I worked with:

Person "A" started working part-time for a local tech firm as a manual tester towards the end of their high school career. He worked in various departments including support, IT and software development in the same firm. By his mid-30s, he was promoted to become the DevOps architect with 20 years of experience in the industry.

Person "B" disliked school and found work in support after quitting high school. He moved around different companies and roles including QA, software developer and manager. His last known role was as principal engineer in a software company.
No word on home insurance rates? It's already completely insane in the SE (and other regions of the country) and can only get worse. I don't see how it's possibly sustainable or what will be done. With the current state of insurance, it's "normal" for your mortgage payment to jump every year or two to compensate for insurance increases in your escrow account.
I made a toolbox as an alternative to GNU Privacy Guard, check it out
The experimental branch now has key-management and hashing system now, give me advice related to all of this or help improve this at https://github.com/PranjalPrasad12/cryptography-toolbox
This data would be of much more interest to your health insurance company. The ultimate preexisting condition pricing guide.

Mostly a US concern, as usual.
Yup, come to the same conclusion. I browsed the source of this project, in particular the password hashing and encryption, it seems overcomplicated compared to a KISS bcrypt implementation. I’ve also spent way too much time integrating Auth0 on previous projects, and I now think the cost/benefits of using third party auth is very debatable.
Even tsunami don’t get very high. They are more about the volume of water. They only get high when the water is moving through a narrow area or an area with underwater things.
It's nice to have, but it's not audio-rate modulation.
US Army orders next-gen robot mule to haul a literal ton of gear
Yeah, and you'll have forgotten it the next time you need to configure something.
Several LLM providers have solid promises that they won't train on your inputs to them. OpenAI have this if you are using their paid API (though frustratingly not for their paid ChatGPT users, at least to my knowledge), and Anthropic have that for input to their free apps as well: https://support.anthropic.com/en/articles/7996885-how-do-you...

I was hoping I could say the same for Gemini, but unfortunately their policy at https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/13594961?visit_id=6... says "Google uses this data, consistent with our Privacy Policy, to provide, improve, and develop Google products and services and machine-learning technologies"

My intuition is that Google don't directly train on user conversations (because user conversations are full of both junk and sensitive information that no model would want to train on), but I can't state that with any credibility.
There are a bunch of modules, you can connect them in various modulation configurations.

> Module is a basic element of the SunVox. There are several types of modules (...)

https://www.warmplace.ru/soft/sunvox/manual.php#mod
https://www.frbsf.org/research-and-insights/publications/doc... implies that 401k contributions are included in the personal savings rate (because they are not part of personal outlays).

> Since IRA and 401(k) contributions are not part of personal outlays (and, therefore, must be included in the difference between personal income and personal outlays), these contributions are included in national saving computations.
AI and Computer Vision Are Transforming Conveyor Belt Systems
No, just straight chatgpt and claude but I will take a look, thanks
This is unsurprising since from what little I know about electronics, I know the ESP32 is pretty common. I know very little about electronics. So if I know it's common, it's for sure in the training data of ChatGPT.
Do NOT use libsodium with Go
I've rolled my own before (including implementing several distinct F500 SSO variants atop it). I'm sympathetic to the benefits of that, but I think most Web developers would get the nuances of it wrong, to the point of increasing both system downtime and security vulnerabilities.

That said, I recently went to add off-the-shelf JS/TS authn to a new SvelteKit app, looking at a few different packages, and was surprised how rough it was to do any method other than sell out your users to adtech companies just a little bit more. (The last off-the-shelf auth framework I used, for Python Flask, was more straightforward to add, and for a rich feature set.) So there seems to be an opportunity to do better.
All humans share 99% of their genome, so it’ll be more than 50%. ;)
There are six human needs, they say: certainty, variety (uncertainty), significance, love, growth and contribution

Cooking alone doesn't check the same boxes. It probably gives you only more "certainty" of being fed, but you're not craving more of that.

Cooking for you and your wife probably gives you some significance (you like being appreciated for making a nice meal), love and a sense of contribution. Way more satisfying!
Tells you something about the power of AWS Marketplace as a channel that a direct competitor found it worthwhile join and pay the % commission to get access to the companies that buy through there.
It seems you are either uninformed or deliberately ignoring the real issue.

Apple requires developers who use the entitlement to pay a 27 percent fee (reduced for subscriptions older than one year and for small businesses) on all website purchases referred by Apple. So if Spotify puts a link in its app and a user clicks it and subscribes, Spotify would owe Apple a 27 percent commission.

Directly after the European Commission's ruling, Spotify on March 5 submitted an EU app update that had information on subscription pricing and links to its websites for customers to make purchases. This was prior to when Apple had announced its entitlement plan.

Apple ignored Spotify's app update, and Spotify complained on March 14 that Apple had not "acknowledged or responded" to its App Store submission. Spotify at the time called on the European Commission to force Apple to approve its app update.

The antitrust ruling from the European Commission fined Apple nearly $2 billion and mandated that Apple "remove anti-steering provisions" for music apps in the European Economic Area.

And that is utterly just. The only "corruption" is Apple becoming a heady tyrant abusing the power of their platform as a hammer to rob the rest of the world. They have the corrupt US administration in their pocket, but thankfully, not the EU. The EU is one of the few governments that can actually stand up to American corporate tyranny and actually win.
In a decade or two, death could be a real concern.

It's probably already possible, given sufficient resources, to tailor-make a virus that targets a specific person, family, or ethnic group.

Presumably it will get easier to develop designer virii, as time marches on, not more difficult.
Forever chemicals persist through waste incineration, researcher finds
Nuclear arms doesn't need as much accuracy as other weapons though: when using a cruise missile or a glide bomb with a few hundreds of kilograms of explosives, you need metric precision to get the military effect, when the payload is a 100kt bomb, then 100m is accurate enough.

Unlike other bombs it must absolutely be 100% resilient to any kind of spoofing though, for obvious reasons, hence GNSS is a nonstarter for those when they are the default guidance system for other weapons (with backups, for cruise missile).
Benn Jordan made a video about midinous a year ago where he explains that the author, Nornec who is a music producer, liked Nodal so much but wanted improvements so direly they just learnt to program and developed modinous [1].

So yes, it’s completely inspired by nodal and the research papers which were published about it. It basically aims to be a better nodal in a lot of way. Also great origin story.

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rtTWtzWav8I&t=770s&pp=2AGCBpAC...