skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I learned French because I moved to another country, and I was learning verb conjugations by regularly looking at the (very long) conjugation table. One day I just randomly looked at the table of verb conjugations in my mother tongue, Turkish, and I couldn't believe it, it's many times longer than the one in French! The fact that there are so many things I use in daily life without much effort has shown me how wonderfully the brain works.
Not really, a phone in first boot not unlocked state is secure against most threat models
The live view of a Starship fin being attacked by plasma during reentry was pretty close too.
It is called evidentiality. It doesn't have any direct relationship to time, as one would expect with a tense. Southern Quechua has a reported event evidential affix as well. A friend who is a speaker of Quechua was once horrified, hearing that a man was going to be given a life sentence for murder in Bolivia. They played a portion of his confession over the radio, and the accused man used the reported event evidential through the entirety. Literally, saying that all his words were second hand, dubious information. To my friend, the implication was that he was saying what the police had told him to say. Apparently, those judging the case were not aware of the subtlety, and it did not come through in the Spanish translation of the confession, resulting in a conviction. Whatever the facts of the case were in the end, what is interesting is that for Quechua speakers like my friend, due to the use of the reported event evidential, there was no confession, even though all of the events of a murder were stated in the first person.
Link to the delta from the latest code revision where they replaced “ACF” with “SCF”.

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph...

Not a lawyer, but since WPE sells ACF services, can WP redirect users away? That is directly impacting a competitor’s bottom line.
Also correlates with the rise in people believing that brand -building is just as important as actual skills. As in, the only way to stand out is to be Someone.

It’s ultimately a pick me scenario, and still fundamentally submissive.
> HIV on its own won't have catastrophic health implications

Yes it does.

You can never let your blood or sexual fluids come in contact with another uninfected person and you can also never be a mother.

Your lifespan probably won't be impacted all that much.

These are two wildly different things.
I would guess SpaceX decided to provide everything the FAA/other agencies were asking for and thus their launch license was issued.
Main difference (besides scale) is that the booster is cooperating with the chopsticks, navigating to hover at a point between the arms.
Ask HN: If you were rewriting Emacs from scratch, what would you do differently?
Don't get me wrong, I'm not planning on creating an Emacs killer, nor suggest anyone do that. But, hypothetically, what are some fundamental pitfalls of this foundational application?
or so you've heard
> The mulberry harbours were built in a day with scant regard to the views of the locals.

One lasted just weeks before it was destroyed in a storm.
The other did better, and was used for 10 months.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulberry_harbours
100℅
This is the same thing I tell entrepreneurs.

At least with startups you can get lucky.

Writing (or producing) something memorable requires something more.
Are MathJax and KaTeX competitors? (2020)
A key aspect in AlphaProof was how to find good training problems. For AlphaProof they managed to scrape 1 million "International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) style" problems.

Here Bengio seems to just suggest using estimated entropy `E_P(t|T(S))[− log P(t | T(S))]` of the theorem to find interesting/surprising theorems to try and prove.

This reminds me of the early work in estimating LLM uncertainty/hallucinations using perplexity. It didn't work very well.

Actually generating good "exercises" for the system to "practice" on, and theorems to try and prove, still seems like the biggest road block for an AI mathematician.
It connects to the philosophical question of why we are doing math in the first place?
hiking is probably a bit better, but walking only burns 2/3s the calories that running does for a given unit of distance.

So a 190lb man burns 150 calories for running a mile, but only 100 calories for walking it. It will take about 20 minutes to walk a mile, and about 10 minutes to run one.

So this relates to the original complaint about exercise 20 minutes a couple times a week: if you walk 20 minutes, you've burned... 100 calories.

A 1000 calorie hike is probably 10+ miles, and that's about 200 minutes. 3 hours and 20 minutes! Yup, quite the time commitment, however if you ran 7 miles it would only take about an hour.
> That's why layoffs are hitting across the board.

It's an unrelated aside, but the layoffs have no relation to technical fundamentals. They are purely economic events.
I just can't bring myself to expend the resources that a modern LLM requires for something 10% better than the LSP refactor commands.
Agreed, if I was hiring and the author applied, I would base most of my decision on the quality of this article alone. Just goes to show how engaging communication beats whiteboard interviews, at least for me.
Quite curious to hear: why?

Asking because this program isn't useful without 3G of model data, and WASM isn't useful outside of the browser (and perhaps some blockchain applications), where 3G of data isn't going to be practically available.
I find most ereaders to be absolute garbage and just read books on my phone.
Could you please stop posting in the flamewar style to HN? We're trying for something else here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Will it finally make it to orbit?

Will there be any simulated load or is it empty again?
That's not a very fair comparison.

I'm not worried at all about the power efficiency of my phone's charging process.

Some napkin math suggests that my pocket supercomputer costs me at most about $1 per year to keep charged and running, or perhaps $5 over the life of the phone, when plugged in every night. I wouldn't notice or care if it were an order of magnitude worse than that at $10 per year or $50 over the life of the phone.

So wireless charging of my phone doesn't bother me a bit, and it is something that I use that when it is convenient.

An EV doesn't operate at that scale, though. I would care a lot about losing even 10 or 20% of charging efficiency with an EV.
Great diversion! Level 10...no thanks...
I guess I did miss your point, I thought by “we” you meant us currently in this conversation here, instead of some other hypothetical situation. In that case, sure, it would be good to have a sanitized named to describe the thing.

Enshittification seems to have found resonance with the folks who engage with tech often, so I think it is a good term for us as. But maybe something like “abusive platform cash-in” would be a better name in other contexts.
HackerOne is an awful company with a terrible product. Not the first time I’ve heard of their triage process or software getting in the way of actual bug bounty.
The Alphard hybrid had a belt CVT, rather than a power-split-device hybrid.

https://toyota-club.net/files/faq/21-11-20_faq_hybrid_thsc_e...

"Hybrid repair experts have called the first generation Estima (AHR10) Toyota's most problematic hybrid vehicle ever."
With AI market headed for trillion-dollar mark, chip shortages loom
I took three years of Arabic as an undergrad, it's an interesting language to study, but needing to learn the alphabet will make it more difficult than Turkish, I would say. Which might be fine if you're looking for a challenge!
> - How do I check how many seconds the replica is lagging behind master?

> - How would I monitor the replica? A simple cron task that pings a health check if everything is OK (lag is < x) would be a nice start.

No, you should use Patroni. It configures and monitors Postgres' native replication.

https://patroni.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
> A $1.3 billion revenue company being too tight to pay this after all, even on their 2nd chance, is so short-sighted it's absurd.

I'll give an "another side" perspective. My company was much smaller. Out of 10+ "I found a vulnerability" emails I got last year, all were something like mass-produced emails generated based on an automated vulnerability scanning tool.

Investigating all of those for "is it really an issue" is more work than it seems. For many companies looking to improve security, there are higher ROI things to do than investigating all of those emails.
the same thing happened in the states and France among other countries, it was a global thing
We were all told to shut the fuck up and listen to a handful of cherry picked “doomsday experts” who refused to follow their own data, didn’t follow their own science and refused to acknowledge that society has millions of problems beyond one very single, very specific thing.

And if we didn’t follow their edict’s or if we were to express any doubt of any kind, we were evil alt-right grandma killers who deserved horrible Covid deaths.

Heathy discourse was absolutely not allowed. You were either 100% on board with whatever crazy shit your local politicians threw against the wall or you were a pile of shit sub human scumball. Didn’t matter they had no definition of success, no long term gameplan, no acknowledgment of the harms they were causing… in fact it didn’t even matter that these experts and politicians didn’t follow their own policies, you were told to suck it up buttercup this is the “new normal” and it’s forever.

I don’t think this is a “both sides have a good argument” kind of deal. What the Covid “side” did was abhorrent and history will not look fondly on them at all.
FreeBSD lacks three things before it’s a contender on the desktop/laptop:

- WiFi speeds competing with Linux/MacOS/Windows

- Bluetooth support that doesn’t suck

- suspend/resume

We can talk gaming later.
I use FreeBSD as my primary OS despite these major flaws. I consider other things in my computer system more important.
FreeBSD has the best package manager for both sources and pre compiled binaries.

Thanks to virtualisation, I can at least get fast WiFi. Still holding out for the other missing features.
Unfortunately it's hardly possible to do proper case control studies with psilocybin, since the psychedelic effects cause unblinding.

This is a problem with SSRIs as well; studies have found most people can correctly guess if they’re in the study group or control group.

A true double blind study would require a drug that has similar side effects via an unrelated mechanism, but nobody has attempted that as far as I’m aware.

There was this interesting one though where they deceived patients into believing they were taking an “active placebo” instead of an SSRI, and found that the benefits went away, which is very interesting and raises a lot of questions about the true efficacy of these medications: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41398-021-01682-3.pdf
Blog post on wordpress.org concerning this: https://wordpress.org/news/2024/10/secure-custom-fields/
that's false progress though
They've been trying to launch and land the rocket at a precise point without explosion
I was the young "tech guy" inside the business development department at Earthlink in the mid 90s. The bizdev folks would propose ideas and I would think them through and realize there were technical issues, and when I shared my concerns, they would all be disheartened. But, sometime later, I would figure out a way around the "problem". They were perpetually grateful, but after a number of these iterations, I got the sense that I was mainly solving problems that I had invented. I actually even shared my concern about that with my boss, and he dismissed it – I think they enjoyed the rollercoaster ride.
To quote user rvnx:

> SpaceX provided information about the flight profile and its impact only in mid-August to FAA. [...]

> According to 50 CFR § 402.13, the other agencies have 60 days to give back their answers to the FAA.

> 15 August + 60 days = now.

You don't send a rocket without some sort of due diligence in terms of impact. Nobody likes bureaucracy, but I don't see how we're going to make the world a better place for everyone by letting billionaires basically do whatever they want with their toys without checks.
AI helps farmers target weeds, livestock illnesses and pests
For folks that are interested in anecdotes about psychedelics, I recommend reading Erowid expertise vaults as what gets volunteered here is very narrow and not representative of the population as a whole.

I would know, as my psychedelic mega dose stories are very different from this and also completely unique to me.

I’ve done 500ug of LSD and it was great fun. I scheduled a day off to rest ahead of time and was back to normal after that.

250ug of LSD + 1 full ounce of golden teacher psilocybe cubensis and had a somewhat spiritual experience, took a couple days before I wanted to resume normal life.

+ a dozen or more similar stories

There is a reason why “set and setting” is repeated so heavily when instructing people on how to use these substances. Any discussion of potential subjective benefits or harms of a psychedelic in the context of an experience without specific accounting for that is fundamentally incomplete.

That being said, if my experience sounds ridiculous to you, that’s because it’s unique to me, just as others’ are unique to them. There isn’t really much to be gained by talking about individual experiences other than it’s an entertaining topic of discussion. It gets everybody exactly nowhere closer to establishing the objective clinical value of these things, though.
> They are basically completely dismissing government oversight as "unnecessary obstacles to progress".

SpaceX works quite well with the government and doesn't mind oversight with regards to safety at all. What they don't care for is frivolous oversight/bureaucratic rubber stamping without looking at the intention behind the rules. They also don't like being surprised last minute. All of which happened in the prelude to that update post you referenced. I know a lot of people on this site are from Europe or have European sentiments, but the two places really function quite differently normally. The job of regulators isn't to be obstructionist for the sake of it. It's to create rules that actually improve safety and overall move society forward.
It allows removing the landing gears on the booster, which saves wheight, which saves fuel, which increases efficiency and reduces costs. It also avoid having to fetch the booster from wherever it would have landed.
Great! Best outcome would be that the industry collapses, but not before a one-time transfer of wealth from the cockroaches to the public.

This industry may boost GDP in the short term, but I'm skeptical that there is any economic benefit once you factor in the mugs who stop participating in the rest of the economy or who default on debt.
Find a new job. It’s not as bad as people think in the UK your in the US but I’m sure the markers better then once you have the new job say you can’t start for two months. Make up some excuse and go on holiday for those two months.
Not even really 'disclosing' but just reporting to affected parties that they've got a problem

That this hurts Zendesk is too bad, it's still the morally correct thing to do and Zendesk probably understands that, too
> Why did you take a very high dose?

Hindsight is 20/20 but often it’s not clear at the time if it’s a bad idea or how bad it can be. I think it’s not such a fair question to someone struggling to find effective treatment for mental health issues to make a mistake on dosing. Especially given both government and medical field have historically not amenable to openly communicating harm reduction or safe guidelines for experimentation with this particular medicine.
I also wonder who is going to post on stack overflow if questions can be answered by an LLM. At some point new consumable content drops like a cliff?

LLM will need to consume official documents but there won't be much on "I got this exception..." content.
> It was issued only one day in advance?

Officially, yes. Practically, I was hearing earlier this week that this was coming, as obviously was SpaceX given they're ready to attempt.
Additional discussion is happening on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41821336
You're overstating the impact of the term. No one is going to change the world or overturn the status quo or shift the dominant paradigm by using slightly vulgar language. The only value it has is in the catharsis it provides by comparing something to shit. It isn't a technical term (even though it used to masquerade as one.), it's evocative, so let's be honest. People just like saying things they don't like are shit. It's snark. It's weirdly the only kind of snark that gets past HN's filter.

And since "enshittification" is applied to everything now, and no longer refers to the specific context for which it was coined, we can say we're witnessing the enshittification of enshittification itself.
Solopreneurs making millions just like Pieter Levels are giving wrong impression.
I think it about probabilities.

A smartphone is a guaranteed distraction because of what you can do with it.

No smartphone doesn't guarantee you read the book, but the chances are higher.
> presumably all with the intention of making car usage less appealing.

Spiting car drivers isn't the intent, it's a side effect of making cities more bearable for all other inhabitants.

Lower speed limits have benefits in their own right, they significantly reduce noise pollution which makes the outside atmosphere bearable or even pleasant, and it makes roads much safer for cyclists and pedestrians, especially children and people with disabilities.

Less parking for cars means more space for greenery, space for businesses to set up patios, space for bike lanes and wider walkways.
Not using Lisp would be helpful
Yes, literally, but the arms are massive and not directly controlled by humans.
It’s more than that. You sitting in your living room watching Netflix instead of working is different than a classroom.

In a classroom environment, once one kid is futzing around on their phone, others follow. That creates issues for the teachers who end up policing behavior instead of their jobs. You also have the obvious issues with cheating.

When I was the president of a school board, a subset of active and vocal parents were against the ban, citing a desire say goodbye to their kids in the event of a school massacre. In some cases I had doubts with respect to the veracity of that argument. The parents are a problem too - many have an expectation to text or speak to kids throughout the day.

The school handled it well IMO, no phones until grade 5, then kids can have them in their locker and use them at specific times.
Just get out of there. Whatever it takes.
> “you can buy 10ml of milk for $2”

That's expensive ass milk.
Oh dear god no. You can check my comment history to see I rant about that frequently. I with in ML and dear god is there so much fraud.

What I arguing for is honesty. It's perfectly okay to do work where there's a high level of uncertainty *UNDER THE CONDITION THAT YOU ARE UPFRONT WITH THAT UNCERTAINTY.* Short of that is at best deceptive. I'll encourage you to look at my recent comment history because I've said a lot about that.

But what I'm trying to discuss in the previous comment is the systematic and structural components that encourage this deceptive and fraudulent behavior. Because if we don't recognize why it happens then we can't really solve it. Sure, we can hit a reset button and it'll go away, but it's we don't recognize the pressures that push the fields in these directions then it is just going to happen again.

The reason I'm arguing that we have to take risks is because many of these pressures are created by naive metrics that attempt to measure things that are not realistically measurable (so of course the metrics get hacked. It's literally Goodhart's law in action). But there are so many issues at play. The lack of incentivization of replication means few people earnestly read the works of others. It means science doesn't actually happen because the whole fucking point is replication. People aren't even reading the papers of their peers in their own departments! Literally the person in the office next to them!

The whole academic structure is screwy. You train someone for years to become an expert researcher (grad student) and then immediately put them in a manager role (professor)? The fuck were we doing that training for? I get managers, but with so many admins in universities why are professors doing less and less research? Advising grad students isn't research as every grad student will tell you their professor doesn't get details.

I could go on. But my point is the system is fucked up and overrun by bureaucrats who are risk adverse. They'd rather rely on metrics they are unwilling to understand than acknowledge that they live in a world that is fuzzy and chaotic. That kind of blindness is for religion and conspiracies, not science.
> The launch is an intense marketing push with a component of artificial scarcity.

I consider artificial scarcity to be an unethical practice. It's literally lying. It uses fake timers to pressure people into buying or fake limits to suggest that they need to buy now. Does it work? Absolutely. Is it ethical? Not a chance.
I bet it's the phone.

Even if you're interested a smartphone can distract you.

So no smartphone helps those people to focus on the remaining possibilities.
That's kind of the problem though, if you are trying to learn and people just switch to English it's difficult to make progress.

I've had situations in France where I ended up having one side of the conversation in French and one in English!
If anyone from Automattic is reading this and would like to confidentially leak any internal information about this behaviour from Matt, please email admin@bullenweg.com and I will publish it on bullenweg.com.
Noob question: How comes hurricanes aren’t a problem?
> What is also telling is that there is no particularly strong reaction from the physics community that someone obvious was wrongfully omitted.

A few days before the announcement of the Physics Nobel Prize Sabine Hossenfelder created a video about her predictions for the Physics Nobel Prize. Likely all mentioned researchers in this video did more for the advancement of physics research than John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton:

> Who Will Win This Year’s Nobel Prize in Physics? My Speculations

> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMTNHqEpTnw
I understand this is a tradition and it is pointless to look for logic here, but I always wandered why dollar sign goes first when all other units go after the number.
Let the schools make rules, just like they do for a thousand other things.

If you make it a “public policy” issue, it will become another partisan football for the authoritarians among us to create drama about.
The hype will not sustain its current intensity, that's for sure, but even so, some of the LLM usage patterns will stick. I'd consider anything outside of entertainment too risky, but that's just my opinion.
> PS: like I said in early 2023, The programming tutorial SEO industry is dead. ChatGPT and friends can answer all newbie questions customized to the problem at hand. The future is in hard-earned deep insights that are hard to fake or buy.

Well, sure, there's no point in writing yet another Next.js starter tutorial. There never was after the first three, but when new technology comes out, someone is going to have to explore it and write about it if you want an LLM to be trained to do the same. Someone correct me if I've gotten that wrong.
This is also standard procedure for Falcon 9 landings. They would do it this way even if the launch license didn't require it, because they know the probability of some sort of failure of the booster is high, and they don't want to destroy the launch tower if they can help it.