skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This isn't the Skynet Terminator wipe-us-all-out AI, it's the adorable grandpa with a bag of werthers wipe-us-all-out AI, and that means it's going to be OK.

Ray: I tried to think of the most harmless thing. Something I loved from my childhood. Something that could never ever possibly destroy us. Mr. Stay Puft!

Venkman: Nice thinkin', Ray.
You don’t know for a fact that those two specific packages don’t have supported APIs. Just because the user doesn’t know of any API doesn’t mean none exists. The average accountant or doctor is never going to even ask the vendor “is there an API” because they wouldn’t know what to do with one if there was.
Looks like visual understanding of diagrams is improved significantly! For example, it was on par with Chat GPT 4o and Gemini 1.5 in parsing an ERD for a conceptual model, but now far excels over the others.
Akira ransomware is encrypting victims again following pure extortion fling
These Google scans are also available in the HathiTrust [1], an organization built from the big academic libraries that participated in early book digitization efforts. The HathiTrust is better about letting the public read books that have actually fallen into the public domain. I have found many books that are "snippet view" only on Google Books but freely visible on HathiTrust.

If you are a student or researcher at one of the participating HathiTrust institutions, you can also get access to scans of books that are still in copyright.

The one advantage Google Books still has is that its search tools are much faster and sometimes better, so it can be useful to search for phrases or topics on Google Books and then jump over to HathiTrust to read specific books surfaced by the search.

[1] https://www.hathitrust.org/
> People can break laws. By your logic I guess we shouldn't have laws then.

Let me reverse this on you, how much and what type of punishment and penalty should be levied if laws are broken?

Like this false online reviews ruling, how far should punishment and penalty go?
I agree, we already see this in the financial industry, if you don't do your part to prevent money laundering, you can be facing real jail time. It's long overdue that similar liability came to other industries, the examples you brought up show it's clearly necessary. The free market and its financial incentives alone are not cutting it.
Don't use that license, use something similar like MIT, BSD or Apache instead.
I've had decent results with fakespot and not buying anything lower than a B rating, with a very few exceptions (not enough reviews for example). I think with a little digilence my Amazon experience has gotten better the past few years since I don't just buy the first cheapest thing that pops up because I'm in a hurry.
"The goal is for functionality like templating, sessions, ORMs, and so on to be implemented entirely outside of Rocket"

So definitely a Flask, not a Django. And I want no Flask.

> why anyone would reach for Python for a webapp in 2024

Because it works damn fine, is complete and stable, has a gigantic ecosystem covering virtually every needs in the field and also we know the ins and outs of it.

Of course, less resource consumption is always good, particularly RAM, hence why we're interested in initiatives like RWF or why I keep an eye on the Go ecosystem.
They are also proposing to import from closer countries.
O'Reilly, for whom I've been a lead author and co-author, did this: https://www.oreilly.com/pub/pr/1042

They call it Founder's Copyright. The also use Creative Commons. The goal is to make out of print books available at no cost.
thank you as some of us were looking for something to replace the archive.org digital book library part....
Great points and I do think about AI as tool but the speed at which the changes are coming is stressful to keep up with.
bcantrill's "Shouting in the Datacenter":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4

And anything by KRAZAM.
“Those new to the conversation”
I find this hilariously un-inclusive. Do you expect young adults to come out of school with the correct doctrine in place so that no further thinking or discourse is necessary?

Perhaps the nation’s division is evidence of the lack of genuine sharing of ideas? Where would one go to have an intellectual discussion in safety?
Workplace? Obviously not.
Online forum? Downvotes, brigadding, and generally lack of tolerance.

Small wonder that I’m not being persuaded and neither are you.
Building a simple oscillator based Ising machine for research and education
That one year grace period is specific to the US and does not apply in most other countries. So by publishing your invention before filing a patent application you create prior art that will stand in your way in most of the world.
BQN[1] (an APL variant). There is something really beautiful/elegant to me about composing higher order functions in a purely point free way. Array programming is a nice application of this, and this one has the best ergonomics.

[1] https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/
I was about to comment that the proper spelling is MUNI but the I looked here [1] and they're spelling it Muni now? I can't seem to find anything written about the change, while I find plenty of older documents with the all caps spelling. I wonder if some branding agency got paid for this brilliant idea.

https://www.sfmta.com/muni-transit
I feel like Ive's tenure at apple was more an indication of top-to-botom product quality than design differentiation (though that was a factor at the time). At Apple as across big business the race now is to reduce costs while keeping sales the same to promote the illusion of growth. Under Jobs it felt like differentiation and quality were the brand. Today, iPhone is the whole brand.
Simple solution: apply the new formatting code only to new comments, that is, comments written after the date the new formatting was supported.
I was wondering what Timnit Gebru was going to get up to next.

This definitely fits the bill.

https://www.dair-institute.org/team/
I’ve not used Svelte since it first came out, but what annoys me a bit is that all these frameworks whose USP is that they are simple, then time goes by and they all seem to add more complex stuff that I’m not sure it’s needed?

Vue was the same, vue 1 was simple and you could get going within minutes, svelte had the same feeling first time I used it, but now looking at version 5, it still looks simple, but seems to start leaning towards the same route vue took..
Right , gradual changes are great and you can look fe to them like from windows to web platforms however AI is changing daily.
At first I thought you were linking to "Against Intellectual Monopoly" by Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine: http://www.dklevine.com/general/intellectual/against.htm
This seems promising! Great work! Any chance there will be a Ollama Modelfile for the masses?
People vote in good faith, I presume. Sometimes a comment’s factual basis matters less than its overall contribution to a productive and open discussion. Downvotes in this case are an example of HN’s surprisingly effective system for self-moderation working as it should. It isn’t vile enough to censor, but it also isn’t what a lot of readers come here for. It didn’t personally offend me (I didn’t vote either way), but I take occasional downvoting that I don’t fully agree with in stride, as the overall system seems to work better than most.
Probably not the case here, but the issue is with how some of the NIST standards around cybersecurity are certified. API endpoints are manually tested and then screenshots are provided. Completely manual and very inefficient and prone to human error. This is an issue of US national security, we need more skilled hackers in this space.
Back in the 1990s we called it 'evolutionary prototyping'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_prototyping#Evolution...
Seems like supply and demand to me. Supply being artificially controlled.
This is from 100 Rabbits. Great job!!

One of my favorite flag signals is, “Nothing can be done until high tide.”
> as to why our education structures seem to make venting such a need for people. Anecdotally, there does seem to be a suggestion of some sort of lingering and powerful malaise around the whole thing, in any case.

Teaching has not incorporated morality or ethics as strongly as some other professions where the need is more obvious. This is combined with the way teaching "quality" is measured. The result is that your average school teacher often uses tactics and methodologies that border on straight up public bullying of their students in order to "achieve results."

> I wonder if it's like an abusive relationship

Neither the teacher or the student engage in a process which selects each other nor is there any process to manage particularly bad combinations of such. They are assigned to and stuck with each other. The ethical failures in teaching abound.
I love that we still use Selected Ambient Works 85-92 by Aphex Twin like this.

I've done it myself when buying hifi equipment.

The reason it's funny is that it was "mastered" with a mid-80s domestic cassette deck.

As much as I love it it's probably not the best source material for a detailed test of sound quality.
Isn't the loop

let max = list[0];
for (let i = 0; i < list.length; i++) {
max = Math.max(list[i], max);
}

at the end just implementing the variadic `Math.max()` of JavaScript by pretending that it's binary? (I bring up JavaScript because the text seems to indicate that's the language in which the snippets are written: "You suggest an alternative, wincing slightly at the lambda notation you need to avoid running afoul of JavaScript’s variadic Math.max(): ….")
Almost all of the rules include the clause "for a business". The only rules that don't to my eye are basically "no one can make libelous or threatening statements to have a review suppressed or removed" and "no one can sell, distribute, purchase, or procure fake indicators of social media influence [...] for commercial purposes"
Economy definitely is, for example.
See Amprnet <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMPRNet> and Hamnet
I would have guessed better results in the 1am to 2am time slot, but 3am is not totally out of line. I bet the fraction of drivers at 3am that are drunk is much higher than at, say, 3pm.
There seems to be a LOT of normalization of straight up lies, made-up-on-the-spot facts, and disinformation the past 6-8 years. Caveat emptor seems to be the SOP rather than a reminder to be skeptical. Of course, that's just my n=1 observation.
This adversarial thing could be called the "two words problem"... After that woman who was arrested in Russia by human moderators for holding a sign that said "two words" (an indirect reference to the phrase "no war").
Can someone get ahold of the current owners and have them deliver a copy of the site to the Internet Archive?
It's surprising how much knowledge is not easily googleable and can only unearched by deep diving into OSS or asking an expert. I recently was debugging a rather naive gstreamer issue where I was seeing a delay in the processing. ChatGPT, Claude and Google were all unhelpful. I spend the next couple days reading the source code, found my answer, and thought it was a bug.

Asked the mailing list, and my problem was solved in 10 seconds by someone who could identify the exact parameter that was missing (and IMO, required some architecture knowledge on how gstreamer worked - and why the unrelatedly named parameter would fix it). The most difficult problems fall into this camp - I don't usually find myself reaching for LLMs when the problem is trivial unless it involves a mountain of boilerplate.
Not a lie at all. Plenty of people remember, and are proud of, their professional achievements.

Time with friends and family is important, sure, but everyone reaches a point of diminsihing returns. There's a reason most parents eventually want their kids out of the house. Or why Thanksgiving is only once a year.
Air taxis, electric-powered aircraft cleared for takeoff with final FAA rules
From Fremont, CA, the Sunnyvale office is a 40-minute wait for a 16-minute bus to a 12-minute wait for a 14-minute train to a 14-minute wait for a 48-minute bus (making 34 stops). Google estimates I could get there in two and a half hours. Getting home after 11 PM is more like four hours.

It's only 22 miles. A replacement for a car should be able to do this in about 32 minutes. But it would have to go point-to-point on demand, they can't cover the spanning tree of n^2 possible trips with any reasonable frequency (mostly because n^2 taxpayers don't exist, nor housing for them).
> the elimination

Yep, that's bad alright.

> marginalizes, dehumanizes

This is the part which means anything that authorities or other powerful groups need it to.
I didn’t mention political parties.

It may be advantageous to me for landscaping, but on the whole I am not sure. It certainly didn’t advantage any low skill American.
> ... in a massive influx of personal anecdotes ...

Not sure if you're in the US.

Here, ALL non-technical topics, e.g. nutrition, healthcare, immigration are just a few of the big ones, devolve into a discussion of anecdotes and "feelings."
Amazon is loaded with LLM generated reviews now. They stand out as overly wordy and rambling while being light on any critical discussion of the product.
Well, fortunately, our rock-solid science has some major holes to be patched. There's no way to guess what consequences those will have to our understanding of what we're limited to exploring.
I'm only familiar with Angular so far, but looking for a more enjoyable framework for personal projects.
I'm having a hard time deciding between Vue and Svelte.
Vue seems to be better supported by component vendors (PrimeVue, DevExtreme), but Svelte looks better from a framework perspective itself.
So... wasn't this fraud even before and thus covered in some penal code section?
Great link . Curious how it compares now that Duckdb is 1.0+
'Visual clutter' alters information flow in the brain
Why are you surprised by LLMs doing irrational or weird things?

All machine learning models start off in a random state. As they progress through their training, their input/output pairs tend to mimic what they've been trained to mimic.

LLMs have been doing a great job mimicking our human flaws from the beginning because we train them on a ton of human generated data. Other weird behavior can be easily attributed to simple fact that they're initialized at a random state.

Being able to work on and prove non-trivial theorems is a better indication of AGI, IMO.
Sure, if you can push infinite power through a wire with zero losses. Doesn't work so well with reality constraints.

I've never played DSP but I'm thinking of Factorio. Night falls equally across the world so you have to provide power from somewhere else at night or let your stuff go dark (which can actually be sane--I've put up radars with solar without any backup--it will show you the spread of the nests fine.) You have to start with burning wood or coal for power, solar comes before adequate storage. Thus if you go the solar route there's a range where you have solar, some storage and some steam. Unfortunately, while the game correctly prioritizes solar over steam it puts steam over storage. Thus the efficient approach is to put your steam behind a switch that keeps it isolated until your storage drops low enough. I've had a couple hundred megawatts flowing through one of the starter tech poles--it doesn't melt?!
We have German taxpayers to thank for winning the Space Race as much as American taxpayers.
The main point would be to restart malware processes, just in case they were sloppily developed, and they would crash, get into some infinite loop, or they are leaking some resources (etc). This ensures that all installed malware[0] is in working order. For this just a simple reboot will do the job.

[0] - and NSA developed goodware also, of course
Sounds nice, years of Django dev (with some other dev sprinkled in) has really taught me the value of boring old MVC and the rest of the ingredients, will def be having a look.
Where did those maintainers go after Linux removed them from Russia?
It's not functionally equivalent at all because trade secrets have no term limitation, whereas patents have express term limits.

>Not that easy - you need to be able to afford a patent law fight. Big companies like MS might just take it anyway and risk the lawsuit, because they can afford to drag it out longer than you can stay solvent.

People bemoan plaintiff-side patent litigation financing but this is exactly why it exists and is a good thing, imo.
GGUF files are available on HF: https://huggingface.co/peakji/steiner-32b-preview-gguf

I haven't personally used Ollama Modelfile, but I think it should be relatively easy to convert from GGUF?
I was put into the "advanced" class in grade school, only to hate the increased homework load, and I missed my friends in the non-advanced class, so I intentionally refused to do the work so that I would be put back in the "regular" grade school classes. I was great at math, I taught myself fractions and algebra at a young age. I just didn't like spending so much time on the other subjects, they seemed too easy or too boring and took up too much school time. They wouldn't let me into the computer programming class in High School because I hadn't passed geometry, and the teacher was a total asshole - I failed his class, but I got an A in the make-up class with a different teacher. I got kicked out of electronics class because some other students stole stuff and blamed me for it - I had nothing to do with the theft, I was the teacher's favorite and had access to everything, I didn't need to steal anything, he gave me anything I wanted. God I hated High School so much.

After graduating High School, I couldn't really see myself sitting through 4 more years of basically the same subject material - history, English, social studies, etc... when all I really wanted to do is use my talent in electronics and computers that I'd been accumulating since I was 5 years old. So I went to a trade school for electronics and computers instead of a college, this was back in the late 80's.

I can't say that not going to college hurt my job prospects at all, I've been highly paid for many years for doing something I love. Jobs hired me based on experience, not because I went to a college. That may have changed a bit now, since some tech companies favor college graduates, but I've worked with some college graduates that are just dumb as shit and couldn't get anything done - not all are like that, but going to college isn't an indicator of success at all.
If you're evaluating ClickHouse take a look at Apache Pinot as well. ClickHouse was designed for single-machine installations, although it has been enhanced to support clusters. But this support is lacking, for example if you add additional nodes it is not easy to redistribute data. Pinot is much easier to scale horizontally. Also take a look at star-tree indexes of Pinot [1]. If you're doing multi-dimensional analysis (Pivot table etc.) there is a huge difference in performance if you take advantage of star-tree.

[1] https://docs.pinot.apache.org/basics/indexing/star-tree-inde...
Yes, and the provided Wikipedia link goes into detail about the mechanisms behind the rebound effect.
With state management implemented as sophisticated enough ML model, it stops being clear whether the noob is on the outside or inside of the system.
You'll probably have an easier time blocking youtube (or the Internet in general) on the devices in question and running something like Jellyfin locally to serve your library.
Betelgeuse May Have Companion Star
Would be fun if somebody would grow them in a big acrylic glass cube to make them come out square.
But it seems unlikely that this kind of private capital would be available for such a nuclear project. Nor would the expertise or industrial capacity be the same.
Method for Using Placental Perfusion to Fabricate Organs for Transplantation
This innovation provides a novel method for growing functional, transplantable organs using donated human placentas as a biological perfusion system. The process involves connecting the placenta-either natural or decellularized-to a patient's vascular system via surgical tubing, allowing the patient's blood to perfuse the placenta. The placenta, housed in an external chamber alongside an organ scaffold seeded with patient-derived stem cells, supports the growth of a vascularized, functional organ over time. The pla-centa's natural angiogenic properties, combined with its ability to deliver nutrients and modulate immune responses, create an optimal environment for organ development that bioreactor systems struggle to replicate. By using freely available placentas-which are typically discarded after childbirth-this method offers a sustainable, ethical, and scalable approach to address the global organ shortage. For patients facing certain death without a transplant, this technique provides a critical last-resort option, particularly when traditional transplant routes are not viable. Additionally, decellularized placentas can be used to further reduce immune risks, offering flexibility in cases where tissue compatibility is a concern. While the primary strategy centers on human placentas, the method also includes alternative embodiments involving animal models as perfusion systems for organ growth or drug testing, though these are secondary approaches intended for specific scenarios. By leveraging the placenta's unique biological properties, this invention has the potential to revolutionize organ fabrication, offering improved organ viability, reduced rejection risks, and personalized transplant solutions, while contributing to the ethical use of biological resources. (I am looking for internet or feedback on this project).
MQTTv5 now has RPC. You can specify a response topic in the request message, and also add 'correlation' data to track the context of the call.
Dog whistling is when a politician from the outgroup says something, and the ingroup wants him to have said something else, so they say "dog whistle" and put the offending meaning in his mouth as a replacement for what was actually said.
Will you settle for O(sqrt(1))?
> 3. Even if you could go that fast, you'll eventually hit a speck of dust and disintegrate.

Can you elaborate on that? Do you mean if we clash with anything (even as small as a space dust) while traveling at a substantial fraction of c, it would disintegrate us?
From the customer's point of view, yes, it's automated. The task of shopping is mostly eliminated. Instead of spending all afternoon at the mall, a customer can purchase everything they need in a few minutes without ever leaving the house.

Sorry you need things to be explained to you in such great detail.
Runes are part of the Svelte language and compiler.

Signals are an implementation detail.
> But it is rude to point that out.

No, that is not rude at all. Making a flippant derogatory remark gets downvotes, people like to see numbers. Like the ones you just gave...
You can blame normies for this. They love their ridiculous point and click (and tap) interfaces.

Fortunately, with function-calling (and recently, with guaranteed data structure), we've had access to application interoperability with LLMs for a while now.

Don't get mad at a company for developing for the masses - that's what they are expected to do.

But they built for us, first.
Basically, if it means companies can introduce automation without changing anything about the tooling/workflow/programs they already use, it's going to be MASSIVE. Just and install and a prompt and you've already automated a lengthy manual process - awesome.
Isn't it possible that o1 was also trained on this data (or something super similar) directly? The score seems disproportionately high.