skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When TikTok showed up on my radar a few years ago I decided to download it and see what it was all about. Within just a few minutes (3-5 iirc, certainly less than 10) I was presented with a video of a gaggle of what looked like 12-14 year old girls "dancing" wearing almost no clothes. That was enough for me, I deleted the app and haven't looked back. Perhaps it was a fluke, but it was severely off-putting.
We aren’t. As the company itself will admit when they don’t realize they’re going to be quoted, the goal is not to create healthy community but to compete for attention. It is by definition pulling you away from normal, healthy relationships. We refuse to harm our kids by subjecting them to this kind toxic trash.
Creator of Shiba Inu – Ryoshi
I am happy for you, I really am. It is important to recognize that your experience may not be the experience of others right? While I too had no issue making a good salary through the various tech "crashes" I also know many many people who, for a wide variety of reasons, were not (and are not!) able to. There are a lot of people looking for work right now and their resume is kind of thin. Even with 'big names' in their CV like Google and Meta they are finding it hard to get interviews, much less call backs. Easily a dozen people I've known over the last 5 years have moved "to be with family" which was exactly code for "moving back in with the parents because they can't find gainful employment in an expensive place like the SF Bay Area." When they have asked for my advice I have shared that they are not their "job", they have agency and it is just as meaningful to be in the trades as it is to be in "tech." When I read this story about folks in the trades doing well I thought of those conversations and realized that not everyone has someone to tell them this. Fortunately for you the question hasn't come up, and that is great.
These orbits have vastly different speeds though. Consider a high geosynchronous orbit vs. something like ISS which goes around the Earth in an hour or two.
You may want to reconsider launching with the .io TLD at current moment. Its future existence, ownership, and management is currently uncertain.
In practice you’re most likely to be collaborating with other folks on your school project group, work team, close family, etc. Sure there are exceptions, but generally speaking picking a service location near your first group member ensures low latency for them (and they’re probably most engaged), and is likely to have lowish latency for everyone else.

On the flip side, picking US-East-1 gives okayish latency to folks near that, and nobody else.
This seems great at first, but more so as an explanation of how AM and FM differ; one being by amplitude (brightness), and the other by frequency (color).

What I don't see is how it explains why one would work better than the other.

If the tree is blowing in the wind, and a leaf obstructs the entire signal, it doesn't matter whether it's a change in brightness, or a change in color. Either way, that information is lost by the blocked leaf. And if the entire signal is not lost, perhaps many leaves may have blocked the signal but some signal managed to get through, it doesn't matter whether the signal change was a change in brightness, or a change in color. Either way you're going to notice the change. So I don't see how this clarifies why FM is better. What am I missing?

I see from the article that "noise tends to be a an unwanted amplitude modulation, not a frequency modulation." In other words, the tree is providing an unwanted change in brightness. It never provides an unwanted change in color.

I guess the tree is able to dim the signal so much that it appears to be a deliberate signal change? Couldn't this be dealt with if you know the details of the tree's dimming ability?
More accurately a giant lightbulb, but emitting at 102.7 MHz (my favorite local radio station) rather than ~450 THz (my favorite color).

Put visible light over a really long waveguide and modulate the colors, you invented fiber optic telecommunication.
By "current systems" I mean any technology I'm aware of. LLMs and transformers are trained on the data we feed them. And they can only do a limited number of things with the data. In certain domains that's enough to be impressive but I'd hardly call that a general learning architecture like a human being or even like a fruit fly. Living systems are constantly learning, constantly updating, constantly adapting, even before cognition and consciousness as we know it evolved.
Luckily if you do enough math it becomes much easier to reason about such spaces
It doesn't need to be understood by us, let alone contain transistors, to qualify as technology.
"Unix programs" I haven't ran into throwing a fit per se. That's why I didn't write that.

What I ran into issues with was contemporary software that's shipped to Linux, such as Neo4j, which expects its license files to have no newline at the end of the file, and will actively refuse to start otherwise.

I have a feeling I'll now experience the "well that's that software's problem then" part of this debate. Just like how software not being able to handle CRLF / CR-only / LF-only, is always the problem - instead of text files being a joke, and platforms assuming things about them being the problem.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210225001720/http://shibarmy.n...
what is your analysis? Urbanization? chemicals?
Ask HN: Are you using an AI meeting product/feature/hack?
Are you using an AI meeting product like Otter, Fellow, Fathom, Fireflies etc? Or the native AI features of Zoom, Teams or Meet? Maybe you've hacked together a home grown solution?

If so, how has your experience been?

If you have not used or opted out of these products/features, why?
How long it will take until journalists call the starship booster catch a fraud?
I recommend diving into other areas, that’s when I started to feel much better about my career. I did the same thing, frontend in my spare time and you just start to feel like a one-trick pony.

For graphics I recommend getting into C first (try C programming a modern approach book) and then looking at a graphics API like SDL2 or OpenGL - that’s what I’m doing. I’m also picking up a UC San Diego course on graphics later this year.

I think the AI worries are mostly because AI seems so magical. Sure, it can spit out an algorithm, but it’s terrible at system design or anything slightly off the proven path. LLMs are beyond useless as soon as you hit any complexity. So, try building something complex (graphics, heavy DOM manipulation, games etc) maybe you need to challenge yourself a bit more etc. I’m pretty confident LLMs will not replace any seniors who can actually program and understand systems. But, if you ONLY know frontend, it may be worth broadening your knowledge.

Also consider that AI compute costs are INSANE and they are exponential, and LLMs are a huge factor worse at information compression than a human mind. I do not see this changing for decades. Consider that ChatGPT Claude etc have effectively been “trained” on all human knowledge, yet if you ask either which is bigger number “1.9 or 1.11” they always say 1.11 lol. LLMs are shit haha.

Also the fact you are already a Senior developer means more than a degree, you have experience.

Why not consider doing a Masters degree in Computer Science? You said you already have a Physics degree, I think a Masters is only 1-2 years. That would be much much easier than jumping into EE.

But, do what will make you feel best. When considering taking on studies, think how you’ll feel in 1 month, 1 year, 3 years, 5 years, 10 years time etc.

You could look into a decision matrix to weigh up your options. Come up with 10-20 priorities (ageism, opportunities, compensation, remote work ability, fulfilment … etc) and rank them most important to least, and assign increasing weights of 1 to “n” where “n” is your top priority.

Then compare your options, eg “do EE degree”, “stay in CS”, “do CS masters” etc and give a unique score from 1 to “m” (eg in this case 1,2,3) for each option against each priority.

Then multiply by weights, sum up totals and see what comes out ahead!

That’s what I do for all big life decisions. Then brew on it for a few days, weeks, and play around with the calcs.
Moral panic springs eternal
No phone until early to mid teens, flip/dumb phone only until they buy their own.
Would note that’s the GAO, not NASA. 16 launches is well within possibility, though unlikely that would ever be accepted as a final solution.
All of it can be reused. Their plan is for the tower to set the booster back down and immediately relaunch it.
The proper term for this content is brainrot.
Best case, the players are co-located in a city or country, and they'll benefit from data center locality.

Worst case, they're not co-located, and one participant has good latency, and the other doesn't. This is equivalent to the "deploy the backend in a single server/datacenter" approach.

Aside from the data locality, I still find the programming model (a globally-unique and addressable single-threaded class instance) to be quite nice, and would want to emulate it even without the Cloudflare edge magic.
https://www.reddit.com/r/SHIBArmy/comments/nj4hkk/who_is_ryo...
I'm building an e-reader app where "enhancement content" such as illustrations, context-approprate summaries, and group chat can be integrated into the reading experience.

The way I am connecting external content to the epub is through an anchoring system -- sequences of words can be hashed to form unique ids that are referenced by the enhancement. Doing this lets me index the enhancement content in such a way that is format-independent and doesn't require modifying the underlying epub.

The specific task o1 helped me with was determining what the text is visible at any given point in time. This text is then turned into hashes to pull the relevant enhancement content.

Getting the current words on the page doesn't seem all that complex, but the epub.js API is pretty confusing. There are abstractions like "Rendition", "Location", "Contents", "Range", and it's not always intuitive which of these will provide the appropriate methods. I'm sure I would have figured it out eventually by looking at the API docs, but GPT probably saved me and hour or two of trial-and-error.
We don't even have to get into how some students would still have phones, because of all the teacher and staff phones and wired phones in almost every room.

Even in the shooter situation, there's no need for student phones.
Steam purchases now clearly state you're just getting a license not ownership
I guess the crux here is the claim that "the effect of random noise is to amplitude modulate". Does anyone here understand why?

Ps I don't think analogies are helpful.
Ill-named because it wasn't a reconquest of anything; Spain did not exist as a nation anytime prior to that. It was a bunch of tribes originally, followed by the Greeks settling in, then the Romans, then the Visigoths, and then the Arabs. A mesh of many cultures until the main kingdoms united and wiped the land of "non-Christian blood". And thereafter the Spanish government has gone back and forth trying to wipe the remaining cultures in the peninsula to impose its own, as can be learned from the recent history of the past century. Nothing to be proud of, really. I actually hope Columbus turns out to be Jew so they stop talking about him.
In this analogy, the AM and FM signals you receive aren't usually experiencing interference, they are experiencing multipath effects which includes things like path loss, attenuation, reflections, and so on. This is driven by geometry. You also have gaussian noise that the receiver has to deal with.

You model this by taking your signal and convolving it with the channel vector. Usually the channel vector is a finite number of dirac deltas. Each delta is a different reflection. They are like echos. They can cause the signal to constructively and desconstructively interfere with itself.

I haven't seen the math, but I am guessing this doesn't do as much to the frequency of the signal compared to the amplitude.
Show HN: OS SEC Chatbot with Artifacts
A basic implementation of a tool-using SEC chatbot without reasoning ability.

Features:
* Browse and download Company XBRL facts
* View specific sections in filings, e.g. "Tesla's Management Discussion & Analysis"

Future:
* Reasoning ability + toggle
* Integration with simplified MD&A database allowing for comparing hundreds of companies at once within one context window
* Integration with Table Parser API

GitHub:
https://github.com/john-friedman/datamule-python
I hope you'd at least concede without needing bulletproof evidence that it's a more reasonable possibility than the second coming of Jesus.

The best evidence I can offer is the continued saturation of benchmarks, the continued effectiveness of scaling laws with respect to improvements in general reasoning, the massive improvements in algorithmic capabilities which lead to better use of existing models and inference-time compute, and the overall lack of fundamental blockers articulated that differentiate AI and human reasoning that can't be fixed via these developments.

Every LLM of a given size is invariably at or near the state of the art with respect to all benchmarks available to test general reasoning. GPT-4 was the first model in the >1T parameter range, and every model that emerged around that level (Claude 3 Opus, Gemini Ultra) reached that level of performance in MMLU, MATH, etc. All subsequent improvements in models have been distillations and algorithmic improvements, synthetic data, etc. but so far a ~10T model has not been attempted, though it is likely around the scale for the upcoming GPT-5, Claude 4 and Gemini 2 models.

Sources:
https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/will-scaling-work
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/arPCiWYdqNCaE7AQv/superintel...
https://res.cloudinary.com/lesswrong-2-0/image/upload/f_auto...
Is any ad-fueled corporate social media any different? Talking about shit such as Twitter, FB, Instagram, etc.

I mean, they all use underhanded tactics and psychological tricks to keep you hooked and scrolling, TikTok is far from being a sole evil here.
> That gives noSQL nightmares - breaking all kinds of important invariants of relational dbs

IMO Durable Objects map well to use cases where there actually are documents. Think of Figma. There is a ton of data that lives inside the literal Figma document. It would be awful to have a relational table for like "shapes" with one row per rectangle across Figma's entire customer base. That's just not an appropriate use of a relational database.

So let's say I built Figma on MongoDB, where each Figma document is a Mongo document. That corresponds fairly straightforwardly to each Figma document being a Durable Object instance, using either the built-in noSQL storage that Durable Objects already have, or a small Sqlite relational database which does have a "shapes" table, but only containing the shapes in this one document.
Faster alternatives I recommend:

* Kopia: many features, also great for desktop GUI users

* bupstash: The fastest, lowest RAM. I use it to backup 1B files daily (200TB). Ransomware-proof asymmetric multi key crypto. Less features.
Llama 405B 506 tokens/second on an H200
Significant further optimizations. FP8!
How much does this have to do with rise of chatgpt?
I'm now utterly confused, even than before. From the start I thought you were saying "Emacs is hard to extend [for a newbie]", or something like that, and I've been arguing that it is not. Now I'm not sure what you're talking about at all - all the packages anyone uses come with their source code, the body of any function is a keystroke away.
Strongly recommend installing the genuine ACF from www.advancedcustomfields.com - the WP Engine and ACF teams have provided timely updates (even fixed Automattic’s spurious security issue in less than a day) and have uploaded a permanent fix to MM’s malicious hack of ACF to create SCF.
I think the idea is that the leaves don't block the entire signal. They just partially obscure it sometimes.

And even if leaves do sometimes block the entire signal, you're still going to do better with varying the color than the brightness.
>She is NOT going to be touching social media or similar until at LEAST high school.

Says you.
Said me (several times).
I failed.
Got circumvented by three teenagers blessed with the same inquisitiveness that got me into tech.
I don't think it is comparable to alpha zero, because in the latter case there is an easily verifiable endpoint: whether it won the match or not. With o1 they still rely on human-curated "correct" answers; the system is not able to decide by itself what a correct answer is like alpha zero does.

Thus, while it leads to improved reasoning vs prior art, it is not yet bootstrapping. It may be useful in constrained fields like coming up with proofs of theorems, though.
And the corollary to that is that often your collaborations have a naturally low scale. While your entire app/customerbase as a whole needs to handle thousands of requests per second or more, one document/shard may only need to handle a handful of people.
Sounds like a great way to have less "human resources".
If you are earning the big bucks, you are the one that should be teaching the underlings, not the other way around!
If Im not mistaken, they already delivered a payload in one of the previous flights, because they cut the transmission for a while and didn’t show the payload bay like one previous flight.
A leaf blocking some light doesn't change the color of the light that passes through.
I don't speak Turkish. How would you distinguish e.g. "I heard he went" (inferential past) vs. "I heard he will go" (inferential future)? Is there such a distinction?
Keep it simple dude. All they get is a basic device with text/RCS and call capabilities. I would be okay with giving a kid just a smart watch.

No social media or smart phones until 16 y/o.

Also making sure kids have friends in their community is a plus. Involve them in school programs, help guide them as they find their interest.

For love of god, don’t give your kid an unlocked iPad with YT/TT/FB/Twitch/kick.
You provided a citation, but it doesn't prove your point. In general frequency modulation is more efficient than amplitude modulation (but requires more complicated receivers). For example GMSK in the 2G standard GSM replaced the less efficient 1G AMPS system which used amplitude modulation.
Again, I was only comparing to your scenario of manufacturers not picking up the phone.

It was not a general-purpose suggestion, it was a weak proposition on purpose for the sake of simplicity.

Please stop treating it as a suggestion of what should happen. That post only exists to counter a specific sentence, it does not exist beyond that scenario.

Analogy: If I say a punch in the gut is more realistic than getting shot, I am not advocating for punches in the gut, and you don't need to tell me about better alternatives to punches in the gut.
The stained glass would change the amplitude of some light selectively. But because the FM radio works at different distances, I wonder if it must have some way of adjusting for different amplitudes anyway?
> Either way you're going to notice the change.

For this, it's better to stick to many leaves - the analogy holds up well here because when is the brightness change due to the number of leaves being in the way vs the source changing its brightness?
I think getting recalled as a retiree is about as likely as a regular civilian being drafted though. Both theoretical risks but about equal, for career planning purposes.
The problem with your point is your making an unwarranted assumption about most people.

It's no different from insisting someone would like a variation of something they have no interest if they would only try it.

Or to put it in simpler terms, you seem to think you know better than "a lot" of people.
I'm also no expert, but from reading around the subject a little (Flash Boys by Michael Lewis was pretty cool, also Jane Street's podcast has some fantastic information)... no. I doubt you'd be on a public cloud if low-latency trading is what you're doing.
We tried building something similar internally. But we ended up ditching VMs for bare metal. Does your solution require nested virtualization?
That was a launch pad, not a recovery pad. The launch pad has to be engineered to survive full thrust from all the engines, and for a rather long time as the loaded vehicle accelerates upward.
The RPC stuff is pretty interesting. More here: https://blog.cloudflare.com/javascript-native-rpc/
Sure, yes, a graphical layer would be nice, I would love to be able to draw some arrows and other elements in some sort of an overlay, something like DrRacket does. And yes, better integration with an actual web browser would be splendid. I would love that.
But why not a kinetic weapon though? 1000kg tungsten rod coming at 5 km/s and 3000K will sink any ship.

A bit tricky to aim though - basically the moment you initiate the burn for re-entry, you give 15 minute warning.
It's basically the same idea in both cases. Power laws warp anything "slightly bigger" into dominating everything else when the power is big enough. There's a bit more stuff near the outside than the inside, so with a high enough dimension the volume is in the rind. Similarly, the equator is a bit bigger than the other slices, so with enough dimensions its surface area dominates.
Essentially that is actually the case. Human-visible light and AM/FM radio waves are just different wavelengths along the EM spectrum.

A flashlight beams out waves that we can see; a radio transmitter beams out waves we can't. The brightness of the beam of light is related to its amplitude, just like the signal content in AM radio is related to its amplitude. And the color of the beam of light is related to its frequency, just like the signal content in FM radio is related to its frequency.
> but this was changed to a more Algol-like syntax due to the prevailing opinion among many that an Algol-like syntax would be easier for C/Pascal/C++ programmers to adopt

Did this not cripple macros?
I repeated to my boy that the Chinese government uses it to spy on people and he won't go near it for that reason. Yay propaganda.
The time period of their analysis is through May 2023, which was a full year before their OpenAI agreement. The agreement is irrelevant to the findings of the article.
Not talking about using it as a daily driver, just contrasting your claim that you have never used twitter with the people who claim to have never used windows over a 20 year period of working or hobbying in IT.
If you're already a seasoned programmer, maybe different syntax causes little friction.

But for people new to the craft, syntax matters: Chris Okasaki found that the one thing that helped students get over the hump and really start to understand scopes and blocks was significant whitespace.
>Now, I am pretty sure actual positions are not correct relative to each other (it is the same position on ellipse arc

That sounds to me just like a rephrasing of what I originally said. The locations in the Wikipedia image are correct relative to each other (because it is representing a moment in time) while the locations from the code are not correct relative to each other and are instead "the same position on ellipse arc" (although maybe I was wrong with my assumption that the "same position" was at the semi-major axis).
I think it's very wise to market your product on something people might actually care about.

Free/Libre is a fine philosophy, but as a selling point it has had a very disappointing history.