skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am highly interested in ALS research (retired engineer, not a scientist), once I found that in the same lab of a star scientists of the ALS domain, two papers were published in the same year that contradicted each other. The name of the star scientist was listed as author in both papers. He probably never read any of these papers.

I have read also PR by a university that claimed about breakthrough because one guy in a phase III clinical trial have reacted extremely well to the drug. The trial was globally a success, but no other of the ~400 patients reacted so well, for most of them the disease progression was more or less stopped but not cured.

In 2023 alone, more than 17,000 papers were published on Alzheimer's disease. The immense majority of these publications are about (complex) factoids that are useless to humanity. Yet their university will claim that each of them is a breakthrough. Most authors will publish only one paper on this subject and jump to an unrelated subject in the next paper.

A shred of evidence is the ratio of proposed drugs by academics and the drugs that can enter a phase III clinical trial as they have shown some efficacy. It's something like 1000 to 1.

The largest problem for leaders is how to organize research. There is a consensus that goals-oriented research is not the most efficient way to achieve great results. Instead, we have a free market and a star system. Most academics are free to work on whatever they want.

I can't think of a solution out of those two obviously broken policies.
Well it's pretty much the same with the SNCF in France. However, surprisingly it is still more reliable than the DB (less accident, more on time); which is quite shocking considering German's reputation...
Hiring an army of specialists is the wrong approach to AI
Wow this is awesome. I've actually been working on something very similar. In my case though I focus on individual stories. Like the commenter above I feel audio doesn't work so well for general overview.

I haven't done a showHN yet because it's not quite ready but you can see where it's at here:

https://news.gipety.com/hn/10842381/k/218/s/three-years-as-a...

I think it would be quite a nice way to give a second life to classic episodes of past showHNs and askHNs.
Doesn’t ubuntu advertise its subscription service on every apt-get?
Like I said, the time for studies is in the future. FSD is a product in development and they know which stats they need to track in order to track progress.

You’re arguing for something that:
1. Isn’t under contention and
2. Isn’t rooted in the real world.

You’re right FSD isn’t an autonomous driving system. It’s not meant to be, right now.
It looks like the editors have amended the title of their article since this was initially posted. The original title was just “3D-printed Active Electronics”
I needed a good catalog for open source apps so I built one
In the last 10 years, I have heavily used open-source software, especially in managing and consulting tech. This has given me lots of experience and a vast database of great open-source software.

I wanted to keep them in a clean database, but I couldn't find something that worked for me, so I built it.

Open Apps is a directory that:

1. Only curated by me; no submit your app functionality exists.
2. I used, tested, or recommended almost all the apps in the directory in the last 15+ years of my career.
3. Almost all apps have a UI.
Weird thing about this project is that neither the website (https://drasi.io) or the repo (https://github.com/drasi-project/drasi-platform) mention that it's a Microsoft project.

Also the only cloud provider it has installation instructions for is AWS's EKS platform. Yet it has integration instructions for Azure CosmosDb Gremlin API.

That one customer out there using EKS and Gremlin on CosmosDb is probably over the moon right now.
But he… what? :)
To complete the TL;DR : the safe Rust code is at 97% the speed of the C code, if keeping manual vectorization.
Possibly the fastest AI HeadSHots generator.
Open Source: https://github.com/UllrAI/HeadShots.fun
Uh, we do. Have compliance obligations. Fortunately our production systems are NOT integrated into Entra. Only the non-customer stuff.
Right, but I don't see anything in the quoted text implying that's not the case:

> In Sirens of Titan, there’s this army of Mars which is really a joke. No one in the army, [not] even the officers, are really in charge of what’s going on. They’re all mind controlled. Nobody has any real free will. They’re just set up as a pawn to be sacrificed, to make Earth come together, kind of Watchmen-style.
Well that SUCKS!
I have a laundry list of issues like this:

Firewalls stopped sending RST packets (or any other kind of error) by default on all ports more than a decade ago. This is great for Internet-facing security, but has converted from easily diagnosed instant failures on internal networks to 30 second timeouts... which are indistinguishable from "host is down".

Don't worry! Just ping the host... err... can't do that either because of overly paranoid admins like you mentioned.

Next, spend a week trying to figure out why packets seem to go only one way through a cloud VPN only to discover that Path MTU Discovery uses ICMP and without which VPNs are basically broken.

Fun.
Well, this should be the main hypothesis of QiGong/TaiChi/Yoga.

The "energy blockages" means the affects of the stress on the body. (tight shoulders, abs etc..) And some mindful streching exercises (like QiGong and Yoga) aims to release this tension on the body (hence the reverse the effect of the stress) and be "healthy"
And I responded to the clear statement you quoted from the submission:

> His heroes were compelled by a quest to resist politics and oppose it...

> ...They ventured afar in spite of government, not because of it.

:)

Granted, reading the full piece shows a more complex picture, but I'm not sure it supports its own assertion that there is meant to be this "vs" towards nations and governments.

The text later contradicts itself too:

> In part, this betrayed how much Verne and his readers took a world of empire for granted: after all, circumnavigation with the ease described in Around the World in Eighty Days was only possible because of empire. Verne depicted a journey that simultaneously relied on a velocity and connectivity only possible because of globe-spanning imperial transport and communication networks, and a journey where – in stark contrast with most actual circumnavigatory voyages – the travellers return home alive and well.

So the text admits the entire private enterprise is only made possible by the global reach and security provided by empire in the first place. That clearly contradicts the earlier statement of "They ventured afar in spite of government, not because of it." The world the stories play in are based no the existence of that political structure and require it.
LLM is just regurgitating stuff as a principle. You can request someone else's style. People who are easy to detect simply don't do that. But they will learn quickly
Yeah, for many people in the US, vision is usually tunneled to 2 sides. But out there are many sides.
in places where you have a 3d printer but you don't have an active shipping line that can easily reach you. You can easily prototype things or build electronics.

I also don't see this as the final result, printers could be purpose built for this to speed up production and make size smaller
> Khan Academy used to have [...] but for some reason they removed it

I'm quite saddened by all the stuff that's been removed from Khan Academy over the years. Most of the non-maths content has been removed. The knowledge graph has been removed, etc. I've stopped donating to them because every time I use it, the experience has gotten worse.
That may be true, but I think I personally would find it extremely hard to argue against when the numbers are clearly showing that it’s safer. I think once the numbers are unambiguously showing that autopilots are safer, it will be super hard for people to argue against it. Of course there is a huge intermediate state where the numbers aren’t clear (or at least not clear to the average person), and during that stage, emotions may rule the debate. But if the underlying data is there, I’m certain car companies can change the narrative - just look at how much American hates public transit and jaywalkers.
The Android app will by necessity receive the decrypted passwords from GPG to display and copy them to the clipboard. It could do whatever else it wants with them.
The guild system lives on in a way in the skilled trades. An electrician or plumber goes through specific career stages. My son apprenticed learning how to make beer. It also lives on in the military. I think programming would benefit from an apprenticeship stage -- I had great mentors assigned to me early in my career but that seems to have gone away.

The meritocratic nature of programming attracted me to it (as a young nerd with an incomplete degree in military history). If you could do the work you got paid and promoted, and companies would put in the effort to train and mentor juniors back in the day (or maybe I got lucky and feel nostalgic for an imaginary past). I saw the credential craze come and then mostly fade away (I got Oracle, Novell, and DEC certifications). Now I see companies insisting on CS degrees.

My early programming heroes didn't seem to use titles -- Dennis Ritchie, Ken Thompson, Brian Kernighan. I suppose Bell Labs gave them titles but when I read their papers they just used their names. Rob Pike calls himself a programmer -- when he presented Go at OSCON a long time ago he introduced himself as a "programmer at Google." Maybe a humblebrag, but if you can walk the walk you don't need to show off with a fancy title. I think we shouldn't get hung up on titles, or use them to gatekeep or judge.
Depends what you mean by seriously.

If by that you mean religiously avoiding cat at all cost, no. If by that you mean thinking about what you are actually doing on your commandline I say I do. Which makes me realize that yes, cat is more often than not redundant unless you are actually outputting the concatenation of multiple files.
This. The number of otherwise useless overlays upon overlays at AWS is staggering. And quite a number of these L7 (non-sales/customer facing) overlays can be pruned without much impact to overall team/BU output/Rev. Jassy seems to be correcting some of the excess from the Bezos era.
Agreed. I wouldn't be opposed to a (local) LLM inside my Obsidian vault; but not for writing notes, but rather for discovering connections between notes. That's something that would actually help me. Generating mind maps like this? Not so much.
What country is that where poor people can’t afford an IP address? Is it a real place?
There's no minimum subnet size.
There is still a meaningful difference. Businesses usually need to have some profit even if minimum so they will run leaner for the same output because of efficiency.

I agree that there are many big businesses bureaucracies but they tend to be in areas closely linked to the state/government because of heavy regulation: banks and insurance for example.
They tend to survive despite their terrible efficiency because it is way too costly to enter their business for a small actor. Any of their real competitors is already big enough that the bureaucracy is already well established...
Not to be that guy, but this is a typical situation as it occurs a thousand times per week:

1. Scientists make minor progress as part of a multi-year effort, release a paper, paper features overly optimistic outlook to get future funding

2. Institute marketing department both hypes it up and dumbs it down a little

3. Popular science press picks it up and both hypes it up and dumbs it down a little more

4. Scientific literate readers read it and complain

TL;DR: Nothing new under the sun
> I've lived in houses with original window glass from pre-1900

I live in a house from around that time. I just spent some time replacing the front window with double glazing. The original glass was 2mm thick. It was bending precariously as we removed it from the frame.

How in the world that glass survived as long as it did will forever be a mystery to me.
Venezuela is one of the most oil-rich countries on Earth - and they had gas shortages.

It isn't enough to have resources in the ground. They are worth zero until extracted and turned into products and services. And for that you need technology, companies and entrepreneurs.

When you tax "the shit out of rich people" that's what you lose. You can do it exactly one time - next time you won't have what to tax.
I need this, but for heatpump noise.

It's mostly broadband noise that can be simulated by simpler methods, but visualizing possible resonance patterns for the low-frequency emissions from the compressor (which typically runs at 20Hz, 40Hz, ..., 120 Hz) would be good to know.

Although I am not sure how the 2d simulation result carries over to the 3d world...
Maybe scientific progress shouldn't be driven by money, personal ego (fame, honors, etc.), or as part of a university’s strategy to attract funding or prestige. I think an international organization should collect funds from all UN member countries and pool them together. These resources could then support global labs where scientists work for a fair salary. A senior board (or boards per field) would decide which projects to pursue and which patents to develop. Participating countries would get free access to these patents, while others would pay royalties that feed back into the fund.

Science should be globally coordinated, well-funded, and focused on advancing humanity, not driven by institutional agendas.
I would really enjoy using it. But as a novice data intensive application developer, why would I not query the table 30 seconds and look for changes with a Python program (or another regular programming language)?
All new equity is worthless. If you persuade someone to buy some it's a little less worthless and if you demonstrate value by generating revenue then it a little bit less worthless again but of say 1000 new companies, 50 may generate revenue and 5 may get investment and 1 might and that's a big might, give you a return on your money. Ultimately you need to pay the software engineer for the risk they take and you can do that in many ways but I'd say unless it's a technical founder who really is a founder with you - i.e, they said to you, hey I've got this great idea but I need help to realise it, then you need hand over money.
Just because something is technically legal, doesn't mean it's in any way common or part of UK culture to own a gun.

There hasn't been a school shooting in the UK for nearly 30 years. Handguns were banned after the last school shooting and there hasn't been one since.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:School_shootings_in_t...

Although that fact is sometimes forgotten by schools who copy the US in having "active shooter drills" though. Modern schools sound utterly miserable.
>That absolutely kills open source

Zvi says this claim is false: https://thezvi.substack.com/p/guide-to-sb-1047?open=false#%C...

>how are you "shutting down" an LLM?

Pull the plug on the server? Seems like it's just about having a protocol in place to make that easy in case of an emergency. Doesn't seem that onerous.
That maintenance can be relatively minimal if you aren't distributing the app through the playstore. Like once per n android release.
They've created a Polymeric Positive Temperature
Coefficient (PPTC) device. As it heats up the resistance gets very high very abruptly.

While it is non-linear, diodes are also considered passive devices[2], as active is taken to mean electrical control of current flow.

In this case one could induce current control through thermal means, ie an adjacent heating element, and if you potted that in a box I guess you could argue the box is an active device. But not the PPTC itself.

[1]: https://m.littelfuse.com/~/media/electronics/technical_paper...

[2]: https://wiki.analog.com/university/courses/electronics/text/...
An LLM cannot "become" an OS. It can have an OS added to it, for sure, but that's a different thing. LLMs run on top of a software stack that runs on top of an OS. Incorporating that whole stack into a single binary does not mean it "becomes" an OS.

And the point stands: you would not write a new OS, even to incorporate it into your LLM. You'd clone a BSD (or similar) and start there.
> which could be checked and used

Checked where? In global mutable state you mentioned that has to be created beforehand in the same way you mention? I don't really see how this changes much other than making everything more verbose from the extra argument.

It would be nice for someone to come to with a new solution to solve everything, but I don't think it's as simple as just "use an id and then tidy up some remaining details". No one has come up with something more compelling yet because those details are where the fundamentally are part of the problem is. When the hard problem is figuring out semantics that will allow exposing a better API, proposing an API and then hoping someone finds a way to make it work under the hood is just backwards.
If I didn't have manpages or the option to google I'd probably just use head or tail after doing 'wc -l' to determine line count.

head filename -n `wc -l filename`
Both of the features that you mention are specified in POSIX, which means that bash, ksh, zsh, sh, ash, dash, etc. implement them.

I find myself googling "OpenGroup shell command language" pretty often to check this sort of thing.
See HyperNormalisation.
What is a waste of time is going in and out of the gym.
> have each service that deserves to be reached over the listen on an address unique to the service

It’s already a thing. These unique per-service addresses are called “ports” in IP protocol.
It's truly a race to the bottom.
Clearly the answer is airport grade security at schools and militarizing police, instead of fixing the root causes.
I'd be convinced that IPv6 is done when large companies deploy servers on IPv6 only without an IPv4 fall-back.
AFAIK, auto-vectorization has the same limitation in Rust as in C and C++ - it cannot be required. Hence, it is very easy to break the vectorization in brittle ways, without even noticing the issue.

It would be nice to have a sort of autovec-or-error annotation for preventing this.
> It is just slightly more difficult and longer to target it in a large company because you usually have to actually be hired by that company and do not necessarily have the choice of the team/products you will be working on.

There are lots of examples at almost all the fortune 500. Because they do not sneak in as just some random employee.

Cisco is very well known for backdoors in their equipment.
BYD was founded in 1995 and BYD Auto was founded in January 2003 (Tesla in July 2023).
I avoided injury when backpacking through the Himalayas by tying helium balloons to by backpack for neutral buoyancy. Had to make slight adjustments as altitude changed, but it all worked out. I had my porter carry the helium tanks.
I'd expect smart people to be able to use tools to make their work easier. Including AI. The bigger picture here is that the current generation of students are going to be using and relying on AI the rest of their careers anyway. Making them do things the old fashioned way is not a productive way to educate them. The availability of these tools is actually an opportunity to raise the ambition level quite a bit.

Universities and teachers will need to adjust to the reality that this stuff is here to stay. There's some value in learning how to write properly, of course. But there are other ways of doing that. And some of those ways actually involve using LLMs to criticize and correct people's work instead of having poor teachers do that.

I did some teaching while I was doing a post doc twenty years ago. Reviewing poorly written student reports isn't exactly fun and I did a fair bit of that. But it strikes me how I could use LLMs to do the reviewing for me these days. And how I could force my students to up their standards of writing.

These were computer science students. Most of them were barely able to write a coherent sentence. The bar for acceptable was depressingly low. Failing 90% of the class was not a popular option with either students or staff. And it's actually hard work reviewing poorly written garbage. And having supported a few students with their master thesis work, many of them don't really progress much during their studies.

If I were to teach that class now, I would encourage students to use all the tools available to them. Especially AI. I'd set the bar pretty high.
Because judging the quality of "free thinking" outside of STEM is incredibly biased and subjective on the person doing the judging and could even get you in trouble for wrong think (try debating the Israel vs Palestine issue and see), which is why many school systems have converged on standardized boiler plate slop that's easy to judge by people with average intellect and training, and most importantly, easy to game by students so that it's less discriminatory on race, religion and socio economic backgrounds.
I find it curious how people in 'the West' fail to recognize the extend of propaganda by their own media, corporations and governments, while they seem to have no qualms attributing the same machinations to the rest of the world.
My coworker said the same thing. But now that you know, will it give you pause?

Shell has tricky and arcane corners that are best to avoid, but you still do better to know about them, lest they bite you (shellcheck helps).

I don't think that "I/O redirection can precede the command name" is particularly tricky or arcane.

What bothers me is that it doesn't work with loops:

<input.txt while read -r line; do thing; done # error

while read -r line; do thing; done <input.txt # fine

The shell's grammar is quite a thing.
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