skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is true that it is a lot of unknowns while drilling in Europa. But, the biggest problem with drilling on earth is the heat from the core itself, which we don't have on Europa (or Mars for the matte). Other problems like structural resistance and heavy equipment management can also be a lot easier in low gravity, although much of drilling on earth benefits from gravity "pulling" the drill.

I know this because I was always interested in the possibility
of deep mining operations in other planets, and did some research on it. There are a few interesting things we can achieve with deep mines in other planets:

- Preserving resources and nature on earth. Mining is quite disruptive to the ecosystem and other planets are abundant with common minerals, like iron, cobalt, gold and silicates.

- Underground bases might be easiest and simpler way of building any settlements on other planets, removing material can be done in-situ without need send as much construction materials. It gives great protection against radiation, good insulation agains temperature changes, and can be pressurized to Earth's atmosphere.

- It gives access to materials only found deeper in the crust. And different planets might have different mineral deposits

- This is not practical, but also interesting, you could technically dig deep enough to have enough air pressure in a open cave to not need a pressurized suit. In Mars that would be around 20 km, a much more comfortable atmospheric pressure would be found around 40km though.
For what its worth, I have a Quest Pro and am quite happy with it. I don't use VR a ton, but compared to the Quest 2 I preferred the Quest Pro hands down. I have not tried the Quest 3 to compare though. That said, I thought it was already discontinued already a year ago.
Well, she accepted the role of interim CEO for a bit, and then flip-flopped to supporting getting Sam back when it became obvious that the employees were fully hypnotized by Sam's reality distortion field.
europe does fluoridation too
it's the future, we made our calculators so big and complicated that we have to calculate a smaller calculator for our calculations
Super cool game! I sunk well over an hour into it, but I rage quit when the king stole my 1024 piece...I didn't realize that was an option. In retrospect, I guess that's what the shaky screen meant.

This was my game just before I stopped (the 1024 was next to the 256): https://ibb.co/gv0QR89
As an experienced scuba diver and freediver, I would never mix the two and take air from a scuba diver while freediving…. The habit of holding my breath on ascent while freediving is really ingrained, and I think it is very likely to forget to exhale when doing this.
This is the real issue. Either the death penalty is wrong in all cases, even when it’s brutally obvious that the person is guilty of heinous crimes, or it is simply a matter of taste when it should be applied, like seasoning. The argument against executing someone should stem from the first not the second, even though the second is much easier to play in the media.
You always need a license to fly your own plane. You don't always need a license to do your own plumbing. There might be many test pilots or double-phds fixing the plumbing on their houses without telling anyone.
If I understand correctly, the idea that information is preserved is based on QM using unitary matrices. That's hardly a "common sense" belief.

The belief that that applies even at the center of a black hole is an additional non-common-sense step.
> Of course domain change risk is not new to us. It’s a common attack vector in the client-side security world.

The "client-side security world" is just thrown out there!

I always assumed slapping an integrity attribute on script tags was just about the limit of what one could do to block hijacked scripts and otherwise yolo.

This is making me think there's lots more that can be done and there's a discipline to practice.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41618685

Also, the actual title uses “discover”, not “define”.
Except in that trained scuba situation, both divers ascend together while still breathing. If you are freediving it is possible to forget to do this, after getting air from a scuba diver.
Does it matter? The board made a decision and the CEO reversed it. There is no clearer example of a corporate coup.
> In possession of the stolen items given to him by one of the witnesses and 2 criminal witnesses with a history of lying who, if the defendant is convicted, will earn a reward, said that he confessed to the robbery and murder.

Man, you have low standards to just off someone.
The spammers will always be able to make fake sites quicker than they can be taken down.

Teach your partner safe browsing habits: How domains work, and to never trust anything government unless it's from a .gov.uk directly before the first slash. Bookmark their banks for them and tell them to never access anything banking-related except from those bookmarks, and never from a link or an email. If in doubt, just have them wait and ask you.

My partner got scammed out of $300 a few years back. Told her to never send money to anyone online without checking with me first, and we've been fine since.

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If you really want to, you can report the link to non-government blocklists, like:

- Google's: https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_general/

- uBlock Origin's https://gitlab.com/malware-filter/phishing-filter#phishing-u... and https://gitlab.com/malware-filter/urlhaus-filter#malicious-u...

But I wouldn't bother. They can make them quicker than you can report them.
llm is Simon's command line front-end to a lot of the llm apis, local and cloud-based. Along with aider-chat, it's my main interface to any LLM work -- it works well with a chat model, one-off queries, and piping text or output into a llm chain. For people who live on the command line, or are just put-off by web interfaces, it's a godsend.

About the only thing I need to look further abroad for is when I'm working multi-modally -- I know Simon and the community are mainly noodling over the best command line UX for that: https://github.com/simonw/llm/issues/331
I enjoyed the humour, and the content. Personally I wouldn’t change it - it’s kind of a click-bait title, but I never would have read the article if it had a boring title, and I am glad I read it.
Looking forward to them taking a similar action against Wordpress.com for upselling access to the core wordpress feature of plugins.
Mu.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu_(negative)

See Non-dualistic meaning section.
>How much of the evidence are you aware of?

I'm aware of the evidence - the lack of direct evidence is why I'm arguing against the death penalty. Again, I don't think the guy should be set free as it's credible he committed the murder. I'm against the state generally, and especially when there's no direct evidence, executing a defendant.

>This thread is full of people who are anti-death penalty who don't think some guy should be executed.
> That's hardly a surprise, but it has nothing to do with the evidence presented by the state.

Again, call me a "small government" freak, but I think the cases in when the state should be allowed to execute someone is vanishingly small. I don't think anyone should live in a state that is allowed to execute someone based entirely on testimony.
> TV ... supported [itself] just fine using zero tracking on the advertising they ran

... by hijacking our audio-visual attention with deliberately obnoxious ad content for a third of each hour of our down-time.

> newspapers and magazines supported themselves just fine using zero tracking on the advertising they ran

..., in addition to their primarily revenue stream which was the money that customers paid for a copy of the newspaper or magazine.
>WRONG! ENJOY MORE PENALTY, SCRUB!

Is that true tho? During training, the model predicts {"wall": 0.65, "fence": 0.25, "river": 0.03}. Then backprop modifies the weights such that it produces {"wall": 0.67, "fence": 0.24, "river": 0.02} next time.

But it does that with a much richer feedback than WRONG! because we're also telling the model how much more likely "fence" is than "wall" in an indirect way. It's likely most of the neurons that supported "wall" also supported "fence", so the average neuron that supported "river" gets penalised much more than a neuron that supported "fence".

I agree that distillation is more efficient for exactly the same reason, but I think even models as old as GPT-3 use this trick to work as well as they do.
Greg’s wife is pretty sick. For all we know this is unrelated to the drama.
heh ... i'm frustrated that the schools my kids are going to aren't embracing this tech. the applications in education are absolutely mind blowing.
"Features", like hurricanes?

Naming them is stupid, it's emotional and irrational.

The Japanese have a much better system of numbering them...
I think it's inarguable that OpenAI have at least at times over the last 3 years been well ahead of other companies. Whether that's true now is open to debate, but it has been true.

This suggests they have either: made substantial breakthroughs, that are not open, or that the better abilities of OpenAI products are due to non-substantial tweaks (more training, better prompting, etc).

I'm not sure either of these options is great for the original mission of OpenAI, although given their direction to "Closed-AI" I guess the former would be better for them.
I use zotero with the better bibtex extension. But when I finalize a document, I use jabref and its 'make a new library from .aux file' tool which can then create a .bib file with only the references used in the document. Much easier to archive than my full zotero library with thousands of entries. Also makes it easier to fine tune any edits to the .bib references for that specific document and template.
Do you have any proof even circumstantial?
They are definitely walking a fine line to portraying a dystopia. I wonder how aware of that they are internally.
> “When Mira informed me this morning that she was leaving, I was saddened but of course support her decision.”

How does it matter at this point whether or not you support her decision. She left.
There's also testimony of God overturning / fulfilling prior commandments (Matthew 5:17–21, Acts 10:9–16). The Bible contains a lot of laws and punishments that aren't respected in the United States: selective quoting doesn't strike me as a particularly compelling argument.

There's also testimony of Jesus disrupting an instance of capital punishment (John 8:3–11). There may have been procedural issues in that case, of course – for example, no accusers are said to have claimed witness to the crime itself, which was legally required for an execution – but Jesus points this out after the mob has dispersed, not before, and many Christians interpret that verdict more generally.
Is there a business model where people could pay to sell their timeshares to a shell company and then having the company go insolvent?
1. Tying AR to a static point

Uses: Being able to physically walk around a life-sized 3d model of an engine, human body, etc.

2. Tying AR to a point relative to the user

Uses: Heads-up Display notifications, virtual screens, etc.

These things are not mutually exclusive.

Even once you've placed a "AR object" at some static absolute location, I'm sure you can scroll through the list of active processes similar at any time, and snap it back to your body.

As somebody who hates the sedentary aspect of software engineering, I messed around with a friend's Apple Vision Pro and fell in love with the spatial computing aspect. I do a great deal of pacing when working through problems, and the ability to physically move around multiple virtualized workspaces was really engaging.
The prominence of "Ray-Ban" in the article means they're aiming towards (possibly going to rely on) 'veblen' as opposed to 'actually useful in daily life'.

Not that this is a bad strategy, but it's a red flag for this particular cheap arse.
It's extremely difficult to compare crime statistics that don't involve death. There's under reporting right and left, and there are classification problems.

With that said, I don't think it's true that the US has, per capita, significantly more violent crime than the median Western country. What we have is a LOT more guns, which increase the probability that our violent crime becomes lethal.

We DO have vastly more incarceration than most other countries, though.
Someone seems to have dropped the "EXCEPT EUROPA" part. ;)
Well a flying frog exists: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_frog so maybe soon?

Looks like the little guy could use those paws to slow his hopping descent; I'll allow it. Now to go line the TV room with metallic wallpaper, and to come up with a different folksy colloquialism.

As for the greedy companies, if there's anything practical I'd be concerned about, it would be cell modems. But at the end of the day, there's a high enough percentage of people who just happily hand over WiFi passwords that I'm not concerned about companies going to the expense to scrape up that last 0.5% of users who say "hell, no" when prompted for a credentials.
Update: Looks like Barret Zoph, GPT-4's post training (co-)lead is also leaving: https://x.com/barret_zoph/status/1839095143397515452
No. Know lots of people in this bucket.

Of course there are some who want $100M.

But most are really happy that they most likely don’t ever have to do anything they don’t like.
It sounds like the wrist strap thing will have haptic feedback for when the gestures get registered, so you'll at least know when that happens. It sounds like that might actually make it better than the annoying capacitive buttons that's popular these days with no feedback…
> increase the time & activities involving wearing glasses

Many glasses wearers have their glasses on for all their waking hours. That might even be the most common scenario. I can't see for shit without specs. I don't wear them in the shower, but that's about it.
>But at its core is a message that is missing a little from modern computing - the ability to jump in and just get something simple built quick.

That niche has been pretty much filled by Excel, for better or worse.
That's never been a problem in my experience...? As a frontend dev, I routinely work with designers who can't code. They send me a Figma, maybe talk me through the highlights, and I implement an initial prototype that gets maybe 80-90% there. A little back and forth later and we have something that's like 99% there, with minor bugs we fix after release. They didn't need to know any HTML or CSS. Figma puts pretty good guardrails around their design possibilities already.
This sounds like the same engineering ethos that brought us the Titan submersible disaster.[0] If there were more professionals looking seriously into geoengineering, maybe this kind of cowboy operation would not be happening.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_submersible_implosion
What interface do you use for a locally-run Qwen2-VL-7B? Inspired by Simon Willison's research[1], I have tried it out on Hugging Face[2]. Its handwriting recognition seems fantastic, but I haven't figured out how to run it locally yet.

[1] https://simonwillison.net/2024/Sep/4/qwen2-vl/
[2] https://huggingface.co/spaces/GanymedeNil/Qwen2-VL-7B
Thanks, maybe ill give that a try in a few days.
Can the software resume after being restarted? If yes, the problem then becomes launching the software at boot, whether as a service or using things like supervisor.[0]

- [0]: https://github.com/Supervisor/supervisor
Not sure, but HN might down weight reuters due to paywall, and this story seems to be a Reuters-exclusive.
It would be cool to have a modern computer that booted up in 500ms to a Python REPL or something rather than a shell or desktop GUI. Just turn on and immediately start playing around with your programming language. I’m sure this exists somewhere.
Yeahhh they might have lost some awareness of how utterly dystopian their own tech can be
> I'm pretty sure WP Engine could patch Wordpress to use its own infrastructure, so this isn't a really as much of a security risk as people claim.

Patching core WordPress is straightforward, but there's also tens of the thousands of plugins and themes on WordPress.org. Until WP Engine can create a mirror of the plugin and theme repos, there will be security risks.
Employee of Sam's or not, you wouldn't like it if you ever lost Sam's "support" :)
I have not reviewed the details of the case and have no opinion on actual guilt, I was commenting on a specific line of reasoning.
If you go to https://clinicaltrials.gov/, you can see almost every clinical trial that's registered in the US.

Some trials have their protocols published.

Here's an example trial: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT06613256

And here's the protocol: https://cdn.clinicaltrials.gov/large-docs/56/NCT06613256/Pro... It's actually relatively short at 33 pages. Some larger trials (especially oncology trials) can have protocols that are 200 pages long.

One of the big challenges with clinical trials is making this information more accessible to both patients (for informed consent) and the trial site staff (to avoid making mistakes, helping answer patient questions, even asking the right questions when negotiating the contract with a sponsor).

The gist of it here is exactly like you said: RAG to pull back the relevant chunks of a complex document like this and then LLM to explain and summarize the information in those chunks that makes it easier to digest. That response can be tuned to the level of the reader by adding simple phrases like "explain it to me at a high school level".
Could also be that she just got tired of the day to day responsibilities. Maybe she realized she that she hasn't been able to spend more than 5 minutes with her kids/nieces/nephews last week. Maybe she was going to murder someone if she had to sit through another day with 10 hours of meetings.

I don't know her personal life or her feelings, but it doesn't seem like a stretch to imagine that she was just done.
Assistant PM.

He gave the largest party a majority in exchange for a referendum on first-past-the-post.
Cool. Reminds me of a similar program to convert python3 code to python2, which similarly converts the typing into spaces to preserve row and column numbers: https://github.com/abarker/strip-hints.
Now they’ve just left us all with Bad Blood
But has the device really something to do with that? Right now people are staring absent-mindedly at a screen in their hands, in the future they might be staring absent-mindedly at whatever is behind the projected image on their glasses. What’s keeping you from interacting with the world around you is probably the content not the device.
IANAL but I'm pretty sure that would be considered fraud.
WordPress supports ActivityPub now, so this is also a spat between two massive AP platforms with apocalyptic potential. Someone needs to get follower migration from WordPress to anything else on the AP fediverse done quick.

It's inter-instance conflict at incredible scale.
Unfortunately EXCEPT is almost never what you actually want. It's a set operator, like UNION, and just like UNION it also has the side effect of removing duplicates from the result set unless you explicitly say EXCEPT ALL.

Because it's a set operator and not a join, it's usually very hard for the query planner to optimize it beyond the most trivial cases. It usually ends up being one of the last steps in the query plan. In a good query plan you almost always want to eliminate rows you don't care about as early as possible so you don't have to drag them along in every join operation only to have the data discarded at the end, but if you're using EXCEPT instead of the explicit anti-semi-join operator (that is NOT EXISTS(<subquery>)), you're making that very difficult for the query planner.

EXCEPT and INTERSECT are sometimes a handy shortcut when you're writing some quick and dirty query by hand, but I have literally never used either of them in a production query. You almost always want to use EXISTS() and NOT EXISTS(). They explicitly communicate intent, which is appreciated both by people reading the query and by the query planner, and they lack the footguns some of the other alternatives have.
He openly admitted to multiple people he killed her and had her property in his possession. Do you think that it was impossible to have burden of proof prior to DNA or something?
Interesting! So probably a mix-up.
When substantial forensic evidence such as fingerprints, DNA, or hair found at a crime scene does not match the accused, it does more than suggest the presence of others, it significantly undermines the hypothesis that the accused was involved in the crime, especially when such evidence is likely to have been left during the commission of the crime.

In Marcellus Williams' case, the absence of his DNA or fingerprints amidst a wealth of forensic evidence collected directly from the crime scene (including the murder weapon) is essential. This isn't just incidental evidence but it's directly tied to the crime itself. The presence of another person's forensic markers on the murder weapon and at key points of interaction within the crime scene (like entry points or near the victim) strongly suggests involvement of someone other than the accused.

>It would be a different story if there were something like a bloody fingerprint, or other forensic evidence which could be presumed to come from only the real perpetrator. But there wasn't.

The claim that there was no forensic evidence like a bloody fingerprint which could be presumed to come only from the real perpetrator in Marcellus Williams' case is not accurate. According to reports, the crime scene did include bloody fingerprints and footprints, among other forensic evidence. However, none of this evidence matched Marcellus Williams.[0]

In criminal law, the burden of proof lies with the prosecution to demonstrate beyond a reasonable doubt that the accused committed the crime. When significant forensic evidence contradicts the involvement of the accused, it introduces reasonable doubt and not merely about their level of involvement but about their presence at the scene altogether.

[0] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/09/23/missou... - "Among the evidence police collected: bloody shoeprints and fingerprints, a knife sheath and the suspect's hair collected from Gayle's shirt, hands and the floor. Missing from the house were Gayle's purse and jacket, and her husband's laptop."
Who dropped the bombs?

Really, I think your effort[1] would be better spent on someone else.

[1]: https://mondediplo.com/2024/05/03hasbara
Batting by the Numbers
I don't think Gates has much influence on Microsoft these days.
I haven't done FFI with Racket, but https://docs.racket-lang.org/foreign/index.html looks reasonably approachable?
Navigation / attitude control needs to be real time. Even if there's a microcontroller at the device, the guidance system receives telemetry and then sends commands. If the send is arbitrarily delayed then the resulting motion won't be what the system desired. The microcontroller can't do the complex calculations on its own because it doesn't have all the telemetry from multiple sensors.

Also RTOS tend to have a lot of verification work applied so that you can be confident some facilities just won't fail.