skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hate how fetishists on certain narrow cross cutting topics (e.g. right to repair, open source, environmentalists, security) drag the conversation in such a negative direction. The biggest revolution in biking accessibility happened in the last 10 years with electrification of bicycles. Most people care about total cost of ownership. The old bicycle were 100% repairable by most people and while it's a loss to not to be able to do that anymore it won't impact many people other than the ones looking to either drop their costs to near zero or the fetishists who will scream their heads off the whole time.

It reminds me of not being able to pick a milk without getting scorn from somewhere (real milk ~ cows, oat milk ~ sugar, macadamia milk ~ env impact, soy milk ~ hormones, etc). All the while we're watering alfalfa to feed cows for beef.

Oh boy the bikes are less repairable, even though half the city dwellers could be replacing cars with electric bikes. A car has way higher repair bills and up front purchase costs not to mention the ongoing costs.
Marbles is played sitting in the dirt around a circle. There are no runs involved, and nothing is elaborate. The objective is to take your opponent's mables, permanently, by knocking them out of the circle. Using steel balls to play would be completely pointless and it would ruin the entire game. I want to take your cool looking hazel cat's eye, not a random steel ball that looks just like all the other steel balls.
I may be mistaken but I seem to recall having also read on numerous occasions that ejection of one of the bodies is an inevitability in these types of systems.

Given the limited state space of the simulation, I'm not sure I see what the big discovery is here.

It's certainly a neat result to see it visualized though.
Jet packs seem to be getting actually closer, maybe perpetually 5 years off instead of perpetually 10 years away.
In my current environment there's the opaque and not really shared dental "fee guide" by the regulatory body, the actual fees each dentist charges, and then the % of the guide that the insurance pays, so if the insurance company keeps pressure on the governing body they don't really care what any dentist actually charges you.
Microsoft has been publishing many LLMs (notably the Phi series), their work is orthogonal to what OpenAI is doing.

There's no need to compete directly. Yet.
I think they are being sarcastic because the vanilla Minecraft server is heavily single threaded.
Dark matter/dark energy work in the existing framework of GR and align well with observations. That's why they're so heavily favored. It's simple.

Saying the laws of physics may be different in different parts of the universe is a statement that so far can't be substantiated, and we've been trying for over a hundred years now, is far more problematic. That's a dire option that we don't desire to pursue unless we're absolutely forced to - and we're not being forced to.

Between the two options we're going to stick with dark matter/dark energy until evidence suggests otherwise, or until a better, and simpler, idea comes along.
It really is not the same. Amazon was not profitable because it was building out logistics, and then AWS data centers. There were defensible moats around their business that their growth facilitated. Google built out data centers and fiber, again tangible assets they had that competitors did not.

OpenAI's spending is mostly buying compute from other people. In other words, OpenAI's growth is paying for Microsoft's data centers. The only real asset OpenAI is building are their models. While they may be the best models available today it is unclear if that those any durable advantage since everyone in the industry is advancing very quickly, and it is unclear if they can really monetize effectively them without the infrastructure to run them.
Then you also remember all the other companies that threw money down the well in '99 and didn't pull a rabbit out of their hats in time.

Throwing money away isn't the clever bit in the Google story.
Is this an ad for Leonardo? 'Greg would only speak to BBC under a pseudonym'...really?
There are many professional, military-or-adjacent red team folks who'd gladly speak to BBC with real names and credentials...
I love that new, performant data structures are still being found in CS.

It's easy to forget that it's still such a new and early field. The modern version of CS started in what... the 50s, earliest? There are many people alive today who are older than the study of CS itself.
> I get the point that we call them berries even if they aren't

That wasn’t the point. The point is that they are berries, by the real definition of berries, which is not the different definition used by a tiny minority of mostly irrelevant people in a specific context.

What reason is there to prefer the botanical definition to the common one (that says a berry is a small colorful fruit)? I can see none. On the other hand, I can see many reasons to prefer the common definition: it is older, it is used by far more people, and it more closely corresponds to what we care about in real life (because almost everyone spends more time preparing and eating meals than they do classifying plant parts, so the culinary meaning is more important).

Scientists are not in charge of the whole human experience. They do not get to decide on behalf of everyone else that the salient defining characteristic of berries is not how they taste or what dishes you would use them to prepare, but rather what part of the plant they come from.
A couple of months ago, in the company I work, there was a talk from HR, where they explained how to make a good CV (the company is firing lots of people). She say: "if you have experience in programming C, you can writing just that, or, if you have lots of experience in C, is customary to write ``C++ Experience'' "

Sooo... yeah... I should definitely change company!
ChatGPT is the best foundational model. The barrier of entry is high because of high compute costs.
> Just a bunch of shady monopolistic companies

"A bunch of monopolistic companies" is an oxymoron. The entire race-to-the-bottom with pricing is because of the lack of moat and open-source pressure.
No, the article is saying "actually I was wrong about being longer and slotting in between airplane and cargo ship; we can be as fast as planes, but cheaper, and take a big slice of that whole huge market". Which is why they need to explain why airships won't also have customs etc.
> Either that's a smaller airship than his articles describe, or it's just artist's discretion. They always talk about 500 ton cargo ships - as in "delivering 500 tons of cargo".

From their images, the airship is about 30 containers long. That's only 600 feet, shorter than the Macon or the Hindenburg. Useful lift of the Hindenburg was 232,000 kg.
That's a chicken and egg problem. You have to get big enough to move enough cargo to make it worth getting special accommodations or go through the paperwork of being a proper import/export business to self report.
Having the best model, which is debatable even in GPT-4o's case, is not a moat.
Huh. Maybe reading metadata from the files triggers the atime update? I've got `noatime` for all my mounts, so I'd never see this and it doesn't seem to modify files.
Doesn't work for me either... but I will not dismiss the book because of that.
Still haven't seen any evidence of LLMs displaying any kind of intelligence at all, never have. This goalpost has not moved. They are not building AGI, Google is not building a universal search engine, Meta is not building a metaverse you can live in, Crypto isn't replacing fiat currencies, ...
Intel and AMD Form an x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group
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I can’t speak to all of this, but I imagine very few English people of the time could sit on a carpeted floor for long periods of time in a way that suggested they did it all the time the way most Egyptians can.
I hate to cite Wikipedia as a source [1], but it looks like the majority of countries do not add fluoride to tap water (only 24 countries in total do).

But Sweden seems to have an interesting history with it indeed.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fluoridation_by_country
Google did become more an more of a portal though offering weather etc. to keep you from clicking away. Carasols of their own YouTube property videos at the top of each result. Amp links similar to AOL keywords running their own ads inside most of the time, etc.
The paper is at [1], and the summary chart is at [2].

The top chart shows which of the three bodies escapes the system given initial starting conditions. The bottom one makes it easier to see patterns by reducing noise. It uses the k-nearest-neighbors algorithm to find the dominant color near each pixel. More than the large pools of stability, what's interesting are the bands of stability - like electromagnetic fields.

I have no idea how one codes this up in a computer, with fixed precision math and all. Numerical methods is a black box for me.

[1]: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202449862
[2]: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/09/aa49862-...
> First, some context for our customers: the Command AI product remains operational and will continue to be indefinitely. Over time, we will be migrating key infrastructure to Amplitude, so you may see some changes, but all of those will be communicated with plenty of lead time. There will be no disruption for your users; in fact, we think in the near term things will be getting better for them.

How long is indefinitely in this case?
in example 1.1 i read that as 'tits_square' until i saw the output
Russian man survives 66 days adrift on inflatable boat
This is wild; I like how one of the lead scientists used their background in another discipline (humpback whales) to help uncover this discovery about mice and USVs.
recent discussion, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41813268
English is the international language, and latin characters have a special 'canonical' status in computer science, so you're heavily strawmaning here...
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People seem to forget that if you already know where the finish line is, the journey on getting there can be made quicker and more efficient.

This, at least in my experience, applies greatly to software and hardware.
Maybe the key phrase here is "If you can pick up goods directly from a customer on one side and deliver them directly to a customer on the other". So he's imagining that big enough companies will have their own airship port, and presumably plug in customs to that.... So then the next question is, how big does an airship port have to be? Presumably it doesn't need huge runways?
Where does that quote come from? I also asked several questions.
If there was criminal conduct, someone should file a criminal complaint and have it adjudicated in a court of law with evidence, a jury and witness testimony and once convicted the accused should be appropriately punished.

Otherwise, how is anyone going to determine the truth of the allegations?

If the behavior was non-criminal then the decision should be made through normal non-profit governance mechanisms. We have due process of law for a reason which is that people are innocent until proven guilty and there are the proper protections to make sure a fair trial occurs.

Another well known non-profit in the biotech space received a 20 million donation and right after that a group of people kicked out the founder citing perceived sexual innuendo in old emails that did not risen to the level of a criminal offense. The donor wanted their money back, because they had given it to support the founder and his mission, but it was too late.
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X is kinda overloaded. Maybe "makedown"? Or something?

I just do mine in bash (make.sh) and it runs scripts from make.d/ which are in whatever (python, js bash, PHP)
It's because the companies want to be monopolies: they're monopolistic. Groups who aren't monopolistic in this space behave differently.
What repo can we scan for you today?
In the last couple of weeks, I have scanned over 100 public git repos, and 70% of them have secrets leaked. I wonder how much we know about the OSS tools we install into our products or use.

Today, we have everyone building or shipping faster than ever. People often leak sensitive information while creating and sometimes do not realize it because they think the framework should handle that.

This started as a fun project for us, but we have seen how valuable it has become.

I'd love your thoughts and feedback.

Check out securelog.com - an open-source secret and API token analyzer that verifies, scans, cleans, and prevents leakage in your workflow.
> Imagine a retro styled hip Sears Catalog online.

This sounds awful.

> If the right leader had taken over Sears, who knows

This my whole point. That yes if Sears gets the absolute best break imaginable (like Apple did), then yes they have a chance. The comment I was replying to said that all they did was not act which I think is wrong.
I mean, the US just lets Chinese spy balloons wander aimlessly through its airspace :-P
> The objective might be to stop a process from working, such as the core of a nuclear power plant.

This sounds quite difficult, if not impossible :)
Hi, I'm curious how preventing jailbreaks protects the user?

> Prompt guardrails to prevent jailbreak attempts and ensure safe user interactions [...]
Love the bizarre techno libertarian view that any form of regulation is the result of regulatory capture to kill competition and not a result of like 20 years of bad actors running rampant in the industry at the end there.
The problem for them is that you have some of the largest companies on earth creating a very similar product and giving it away for free -- possibly just to prevent OpenAI from developing a profitable business model.
This is something I've thought about quite a few times, and I think it is a crazy idea but worth exploring. I'm way too naive here and have had almost no time to experiment due to other priorities.

But I think you could set up a global mesh network. I think what sucks is the encryption rules, but if there could be a big enough force that demonstrates it and its usage, those rules could get changed (there is already pressure to do so).

Now one thing though is there's some fuzziness about the definition of encryption with the FCC's definition[0]. Would this include routing protocols and/or compression? If they're open source protocols? If call sign is sent uncompressed and clear? This seems to be kosher considering other projects I've seen. So the messages might be able to be snooped on by anyone, but this would mostly be for fun and demonstration, like Ham is. But also, I think it would be pretty cool to have an open global communications platform. It would definitely also serve as a useful thing for natural disasters. (But we're not in the cold war anymore... we have encryption over the internet and that's even much more obscured. It would be nice to see encryption and a community driven global communication network)

The other thing I've been wondering is if anyone has tried satellite bouncing with the starlink sats? I'm sure they wouldn't be too happy about that, but hey, it is at least interesting to understand conceptually since you could really get a much larger view area and you don't need to travel all the way to the moon. But doing this you could potentially open up the network for coverage over oceans (at least more easily)

[0] https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-47/chapter-I/subchapter-D...
I'm sure it's for exactly the same reason that I'm often hesitant to install it - huge dependencies:

$ pip show ipython
[...]
Requires: appnope, backcall, decorator, jedi, matplotlib-inline, pexpect, pickleshare, prompt-toolkit, pygments, stack-data, traitlets
I do that with ld and objcopy:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58815959/include-binary-...
isn't moat the many billion dollars one needs to invest in compute to get these models?
A single human is a non-fungible entity, but a corporation is a wibbly-wobbly entity whose boundaries can shift at will. Any progressive tax scheme on a corporation will be immediately met with 100,000 smart accountants figuring out how to optimize against it. Expect lots of crafty maneuvering to turn one giant corporation into a thousand tiny corporations, yet somehow all under the same umbrella, all anti-competitive, and all benefitting the same original owners.

That doesn't mean we shouldn't try, but these are very difficult issues to address.
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(there's probably room for a conquer <-> conker joke though)
> That's not what I meant. A solid answer as to why those conditions are happening, not the fact that they are happening at all.

Nestle ? McDonalds ? Burger King ?
For every pension fraud that went on that long and took such an obvious risk with continuing to a notable age, I imagine there were hundreds or thousands of shorter frauds.
WordPress dot org profile on the author, for background:

https://profiles.wordpress.org/costdev/
Ask HN: How to quickly make 5k USD
i am in need of a lump sum of money to cover certain obligations i have not attended to recently, like rent and so on.

i am between jobs and have been 100% focusing on music. i ran out of money and have been eating rice and buckwheat for months but still happy because i get to live my passion everyday.

after the financial situation got really dire, i updated my LinkedIN and entered into the job search phase. it's going great, i am doing multiple interviews per day every day and i am confident i will get a job within 3 weeks (im waiting for my top 1 pick who scheduled an interview a bit further ahead).

however, even after i start at a job, it will take some time to receive salary. so, i want to make 5k quickly so i can address this outstanding debt and have this worry off my mind.

i am 18 years into my career in IT. i am an experienced Golang, Python programmer within the Kubernetes context - writing operators etc. (professionally). i have a super strong guru-level Linux background. i know networks and DNS intimately. been doing Cloud Native for 5 years, know it inside out. recently i've been doing really cool projects with AI, turns out there is quite a convergence with music. (i actually have a product in the works that is potentially Fuck You Money generating.)

all this is to say i have the skill and the knowledge. i am brainstorming the Opportunity side of things. will you help me?

P.S. some of you suggested sex work. please don't. i am female, it has crossed my mind and i even created a profile which succeeded wildly. am talking to some ppl but would rather achieve my goal in a different way.

P.P.S. i am located in Prague, Czechia.
Given they're supposed to show up at top-secret bases and find a way in, they probably don't want their real names and photos to be a Google search away for blue teams to recognize on sight.
> It’s not real funding, it’s a power purchase agreement from something that may never be built!

PPAs can be used as evidence of guaranteed revenue when raising funds in capital and debt markets.

That capital and debt is used to develop and deploy the technology.
Will be very happy to see the prevailing “wisdom” on this eventually get reversed.
Kind of lame to go to a holy site while basically spitting on the people who give you hospitality. "Unpleasant garbage" indeed.

Read Leopold Weiss' book (known as Muhammad Asad), "Road to Mecca", which is a much better memoir. A beautiful tale of self-discovery and bridging cultures and religion
> Just because the Central Comittee is called Blackrock, doesn't mean the American economy is not being more and more centrally planned.

Of course, you'll mention BlackRock, the never-ending boogeyman for people with little economic knowledge.
> The only real asset OpenAI is building are their models

Which Zuckerberg is doing his best to completely turn them into commodities.
> Lisp can evaluate the s-expressions directly.

Not generally: in compiler-only implementations this is not provided.
The irrational conspiracy part of my brain thinks Greg is probably undercover MI6.
Thanks, that's a good suggestion. I'm also noticing that's not working as intended.
It would be a good thing if you could trust utilities and energy companies to use this new-found flexibility as a way to minimize coal use on the way to carbon neural energy generation.

But I think we've seen there can be no trust there and so this is a bad thing that will help the coal industry survive. I'm not saying other industries are "good" but this industry is definitely evil.
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Makedown is a good name. +1 vote from me (in case it counts)
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Claude is better than gpt-4.
I do this too (3 domains, Fastmail)

For specific vendors where I am at the shop, I just make up an alias email with their name in it.

For apps, services, I configured bitwarden to create email aliases on Fastmail, so they are linked to a service.
Amazon was also able to grow because they weren't paying sales tax for, what, 10+ years of their existence?