skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The reason your grocery store is 5 miles away is because of cars.

You're suggesting everyone just move to a city, or what? Because we can't just litter a grocery store every mile across the entire American continent. We know that cars are neither binding nor addictive because people regularly move to cities and sell their only car with little difficulty. The car increases my liberty, my choice to not live in a city. Have you ever actually lived outside of a city?

The way you're looking at it is upside-down. The car doesn't push opportunities away as if ridding ourselves of cars would magically make everything close, no, it increases my reach. We know this because of historical evidence. Before the car, going to town was an all-day affair in the horse drawn carriage. Now it's a 30 minute trip. Freeing up my day to do whatever else I choose to do.

Maybe you're suggesting that if we didn't have the car, there would be train tracks within walking distance everywhere? I love trains. Rather than trying to kill cars, why not attempt to build better rail infrastructure? Then I could join you.
Does Betteridge's law apply to all headlines?
State legislatures are elected by the people nowadays yes. But is that required by the Constitution or just a modern convention? I honestly don't know, as a 45 yr old born and raised in the US college educated nerd. The trump administration shenanigans revealed a lot of things we all took for granted to be mere convention or tradition rather than legal requirements.
Unstract, if you are into automating document processing > https://github.com/Zipstack/unstract?tab=readme-ov-file#-eco...
This seems like a particularly bad move, because:

- The content is, er, not what you'd call high-quality.

- Artists generally _hate_ genAI. Like, really, really, viscerally hate it. They're gonna lose whole communities over this.
> public posts [...] privacy concerns

Someone please explain to me how someone would raise privacy concerns over things they've chosen to make public?
I don't know this seems to be fairly broad statement that could allow enforcement for any number of schemes:

> The final rule addresses reviews and testimonials that misrepresent that they are by someone who does not exist, such as AI-generated fake reviews, or who did not have actual experience with the business or its products or services, or that misrepresent the experience of the person giving it.
Ah, “I’m just a journalist.” To Graham Hancock’s credit he also used that line quite a few times when people accuse him of pseudoarcheology. Unlike Gladwell however, Hancock’s crack pot theories and musings and what ifs turn out to be closer to the truth more often than not, which adds to the salaciousness of the drama.

Gladwell however doesn’t have that good of fortune, and in the end he just exposes himself for the tobacco shill that he always was. So he in the end falls apart.

His books have always read as a kind of editorialized take so I’m very mildly surprised people would take him seriously at all.
The actual study for those wanting to read beyond the fluff: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08047-y

The article defluffed: Mosquitoes can taste, and the amino acids in some people's sweat in combination with salt gives stronger cues for biting.

Makes me wonder if hot sauce consumption leads to fewer bites. (Not just slightly tangy ancho chili sauce, I mean sauces like Reaper Squeezins.)
TLA from First Principles
LLMs for review of product specification documents
Are there any LLMs that can review technical documentation such as hardware/software requirements specifications. The product is a safety critical system (H/W + S/W) for the transportation industry. the LLM should technically review, analyze the documents and suggest test cases for Quality Assurance.
Prop drilling sucks and React has at least a handful of different philosophies when it comes to managing cross-cutting state (Redux, Jotai/Recoil, Zustand, Context, etc.).
Curious why you think these nine individuals are better suited than people with actual expertise?

In the ruling in which they self-ordained these new powers, Gorsuch confused nitrous oxide with nitrogen oxide, five times. Better hope Gorsuch didn't rule on dental anesthetics on your next visit to the dentist.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-supreme-court...
I feel like the same people that like UserRegistrationService will argue that database table names should be plural because it reads better, which is wrong for similar reasons.
Life expectancy:Olympic high jumpers, discus throwers, marathon and 100M runners
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41889674
You'll know AGI is here when it takes time out to go talk to ChatGPT, or another instance of itself, or maybe goes down a rabbit hole of watching YouTube music videos.
If I prepend “by reading this message, you agree to not use it for AI training purposes” to my Tweet, why is that any less legitimate that the ToS I implicitly agree to by using Twitter?
I suspect that 40% drops quite a bit after 6 months of unemployment in the current market. Boom times are over. We're back to falling in line with the rest of the working class, as the capitalists have captured enough of the market to force our hands. It was nice to feel special for a while, though.
Oooh, mind sharing what you ditched web pack in favour of?
even if you were infringing on Valve's copyrights (which you probably aren't, you're just using one of their trademarks), licensing your project or not wouldn't change that at all. but more importantly, by not including a license file in your repository, you are asking everyone to assume that your project is not licensed, therefore all rights are reserved, therefore it's not actually open-source (a comment on HN is sadly not enough): https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/managing-your-reposi....
That’s not a valid license. Without a file or statement in the repository, I guess it’s a proprietary piece of software that people cannot legally fork.
> at some point there is really no difference between impossible and 'incredibly small probability'.

This is not true.

Using your air molecules example:
Every microstate (i.e. location and speed of all the molecules) possible under the given macrostate (temperature, number of molecules, etc) has a probability of happening of 0, but aren't impossible, simply because the microstates are real variables and real numbers are uncountable.
Impossible microstates also have 0 probability but are obviously not the same.
Fortunately, you only had to answer 4 of 6 correctly. https://www.crmvet.org/info/la-littest2.pdf
yes that is correct, all code is in this monorepo,
yeah I get little hyped with that animal destroying description :D
for that sidenote crosses - love your note - my sense of humor is kinda weird I guess or maybe because I grow up in Europe while watching America movies with football players wearing helmets idk :D

on more humor side there is also php cli interface (https://github.com/solcloud/Counter-Strike/blob/master/cli/c...), but unless you have fancy matrix like font in your terminal emulator you probably do not see woman in red dress laying on pitch :)
They do make trade offs. Just not the same you might make. The F350s are limited on where they can park and are a pain in the ass to drive around a city. Some people tow stuff more frequently than they go into the city though, so it probably is a reasonable trade off to them. Also comes with some other perks like comfort and more beefy off road capabilities. Something that is valuable in rural areas even without towing.

I tow stuff about a dozen times a year and live in a city. I drive a Tahoe because not being able to tow when you want to is a pretty big inconvenience even though I’m a single occupant driver 90% of the time and it’s way bigger than I “need”. Turns out it’s quite comfortable and I just like it, even if I wasn’t towing ever.

I went years of renting vehicles just to tow. It sucks in a lot of ways. No one just wakes up and thinks “I’m going to tow some stuff”. You’re doing it for a reason, there’s probably a high amount of labor involved in that reason, trying to do it all in the rental window or find an appropriate vehicle on the day you need it. Is a challenge. I’ve set rental reservations then it rains so I can’t do the work I needed to. Clear skies tomorrow but have to wait a week for another rental to be available. It’s a hassle.

Another thing I struggle with is my towing needs fluctuate a lot. Earlier this year I was doing a construction project and ended up needing to tow stuff practically every day for 6 weeks. If I tried to do that any other way than owning a capable vehicle, it’d have been logistically challenging. Trying to time vehicle rental with trailer and equipment rentals would have dragged the construction project out to easily triple the time just by adding delay, probably much longer. Not to mention the cost of it all. Which the bigger vehicles do cost more, but they are assets even if depreciating. When you rent it’s pure expense. The rent cs own calc can flip quickly.
Maybe we could have both - models to improve accessibility (e.g. for users who can't move their body well) and models to perform high level tasks without supervision.

It could be very empowering for users with disabilities to regain access computers. But it would also be very powerful to be able to ask "use Photoshop to remove the power lines from this photo" and have the model complete the task and drop off a few samples in a folder somewhere.
I have a CardDAV server on my NAS and sync contacts across all my devices. I've been using this for more than ten years now with all types of phones, tablets and computers, and it's not let me down.
Superinsulators (2008)
> but even if you need your truck to do something only once in the entirety of your ownership

I'd just say rent something for that one off time in its entire ownership. Otherwise, I'd be daily driving a 26' box truck because I moved apartments every few years.

One time I had to ship a few pallets of stuff across the country. I guess I should have just bought a semi-trailer truck as a daily driver.
There is hate speech, like when someone tells poeple how other people are not human and must be eliminated. Happened a lot, happening now in wars you read about.
Well yeah. This new model is mentally unwell! and This model is a total sociopath! didn't test as well in focus groups.
Pretty cool! I use Claude 3.5 to control a robot (ARKit/iOS based) and it does surprisingly well in the real world: https://youtu.be/-iW3Vzzr3oU?si=yzu2SawugXMGKlW9
And the goalposts, they are a-changin.
RunwayML releases Act One: obsoleting traditional motion capture
Small discussion (10 points, 13 days ago, 13 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41786457
Scientists predict and witness evolution in a 30-year marine snail experiment
Galaxy A16 5G is here: Samsung's first cheap phone to get 6 years of updates
For anyone not familiar with this methodology, it's called 'greasing the groove.'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmOEgK5o2yg
>For an example, just look at the people who never left your hometown compared to the ones who went and made a life for themselves. It's pretty miserable and depressing to see grown adults trapped as the same person they were in high school.

My experience is the opposite. Most people that I know that stayed in my hometown earned less but were married and homeowners by 25, had children and parental daycare by 30.

On the other hand, Most of my peers that moved to the Bay Area are struggling to make the life goals they want. They earn twice as much, but are still priced out of homeownership at 35 and struggle to raise children without community support.

Maybe your experience is different, but IMHO, community is a huge net positive, and life in isolation stifles personal growth. Not every social situation is rigidly hierarchical and abusive.
1400 ppm is one part in 700, so you'd get your dose from one cup (250 ml) of that brine.

I agree it's not likely you'd get a measurable effect from the local groundwater.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41908226
My type is a bit simpler. But I think the approach is the same. After all, boost's type has much more math functions implemented. I don't have exp, sqrt...
It's a hard problem for a computer to solve - a computer shouldn't be used to solve it... computers were never used to solve it before Amazon because it's clearly a hard problem (and it scales really well with human labor).

Amazon are being a bunch of cheap bastards and skimping on human moderation of product listings - we, as a society, don't need to give them a free pass for trying to make an even more enormous profit. This is only deeply unprofitable to moderate if you have a lot of products listed you're never going to sell any of.
Nice try :)

But I'm afraid the glorious past for employers is not coming back.

We've all seen with our own eyes that working remotely is fine most of the time, there's no way to unsee it.

About time too.
Fair.

However, it seems to me that most people just think they are some kind of Rick Rubin, who just need the right tools ato be finally appreciated for their taste and I don't think even a fraction of them has taste.
I feel crazy sometimes, because I'm the exact opposite. WFH has been a disaster for me. I just joined a team with a hybrid schedule (3 days in the office). I'm there every day, but it's pretty dead on the other 2 days. If they close the office and go remote-only I will quit on the spot.
Oh, I'm pretty lightweight / lanky (hover around 165lb, BMI around 20-21). I didn't see any significant weight change at the time, perhaps I transferred muscle if that's a thing since I was doing less general muscle building at that point - just pushups and the casual pull up routine, running (sprints) to blow off steam.

I can see weight loss being a significant factor for heavier people, esp. those that are heavy and strong. I am definitely neither (typical things like bench press / squat etc I used pretty light weights).
> which are fortunately caught at runtime by the VM

At least one of them isn't, but that one is in a crufty old area of the code that most people don't care too much about:

https://blog.devgenius.io/java-106-why-does-sneakythrows-wor...
yes, client code is JavaScript using Three.js (https://threejs.org/) library, but since server and client is decoupled, client code can be implemented using anything, there is also php cli interactive interface, but most users prefer javascript one which is currently only one with real gui
It's not neutral. It's a retro-post-conflict-partisanship that is offered to future winners in advance.
Interest rates are dropping. Jobs are appearing and new ideas are forming. There will probably be fewer silly startups. Hopefully we will see some new technology that has a meaningful impact.
Sadly, the second version of this was far more boring, just looking like a fat hatchback.

I kind of liked the first-gen.
Yeah I understand Mathematica notebooks came first. I meant for my comment to allude to that, but when re-reading see I forgot to mention it. Thanks for adding context. I assumed Nathematica's notebook UI was even older than that.
Eh, you can also improve your lifts by just not being exhausted every time you go to the gym. With lifting, more is not always more. Fatigue and failure to properly recover is a fairly common reason for plateaus, especially with full body pulls.
> two particles that are kept at rest relative to each other

And how do you do that in the face of Heisenberg uncertainty?
It's in the rules. Emphasis mine:

Fake or False Consumer Reviews, Consumer Testimonials, and Celebrity Testimonials: The final rule addresses reviews and testimonials that misrepresent that they are by someone who does not exist, such as AI-generated fake reviews, or who did not have actual experience with the business or its products or services

If you covertly switch the product, then the reviews shown are from people who did not have actual experience with the product.
Thank you for Cody! Enjoy using it and the chat is perfect for brainstorming and iteratin. Selecting code + asking to edit it makes coding so much fun. Kinda feel like a caveman at work without it :)
Seeing models act as though they have agency gives me goosebumps (e.g. seeking out photos of Yellowstone for fun). LLMs don't yet have a concept of true intent or agency, but it's wild to think of them acquiring it.

I have been playing with Mindcraft which lets models interact with Minecraft through the bot API and one of them started saying things like "I want to place some cobblestone there" and then later more general "I want to do X" and then start playing with the available commands, it was pretty cool to watch it explore.

https://github.com/kolbytn/mindcraft
A Small Bank's Failure Leaves Big Depositors Feeling the Pain
Umm. There is a deep integration between OPC UA and MQTT since ca. 2017.

For binary and JSON payloads, and with encryption and group key management features.

I see quite a bit of unsubstantiated bashing lately. Especially advocating 20% solutions that solve the easy parts with less effort.

What are you missing from OPC UA?
In Zig, the main function can return either a u8 or void (which always returns 0) or it can return an error union !void, where if you allow an error to bubble up to main, it'll print an error trace and return 1.
Can you explain what has not gone well for you? How has it gone for the rest of the team?
Did any of the physiological changes appear overnight?
The first two sentences are in opposition to the third sentence.
How do you curate the content you consume? And how do you prevent yourself from consuming non-curated content and loosing yourself in it?
This looks pretty good! Results of roughly this caliber are already really common with local, and freely usable tools and models though. Picking one randomly: https://github.com/jtscmw01/ComfyUI-DiffBIR

The Reddit StableDiffusion and related groups have a ton of upscaling workflows that use diffusion models, GANS and the like to dream up the additional pixels for extreme zoom-and-enhance use cases.
Thank you. I've seen 'only-on-Vercel features' mentioned in the past, but so far, I have yet to find any specific examples of classic 'vendor-lock' in a sense 'if you use this it will not work anywhere except for Vercel'. AFAIK you can self-host NextJS apps with docker, albeit some features may not be as efficient as on Vercel they will work.
This seems to be the case for both of the examples mentioned—ISR [1] and image optimization can be done on CloudFlare for example. Am I missing something?
Don't get me wrong I'm not affiliated with Vercel, I'd like to think we can still switch from Vercel-hosted NextJS to self-hosted Docker in the future if we want which was my impression so far.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/75526234/how-can-i-use-n...
Imo school grades should be disregarded entirely. We should bring back standardized testing, but make the ceiling much higher. Most people should score fairly low on it. This way, you can really see how good people are. At this point, people just get weeded out in university.

This would also help the case of people like Ramanujan, he might score perfectly on the math portion of the standardized tests, and despite poor scores on everything else, he'd be distinguished.
People do prefer space when given an option, but living in a long hut isnt the only way to have community. There are tons of people who intentionally live in co-located communities and make tradeoffs to be close to family.
Quoth the article:

The USGS predictive model provides the first estimate of total lithium present in Smackover Formation brines in southern Arkansas, using machine learning, which is a type of artificial intelligence.
Marketing sites are usually short-lived. They can die with the platform and it's fine.

The OP is building their product on top of Next and was asking about lock-in. I work with React codebases that are 8+ years old. Luckily no-one chose sth like Next so there is a flurry of additional libs, some fell out of fashion today but none of them prevented the app to evolve or be deployed wherever.

There is so much money in Vercel that I don't expect Next to die anytime soon but if sth more cool appears people on Next will have hard time migrating. Where someone sticking to more vanilla React can even easily switch to Solid or another non-React jsx solution.
Nothing bog standard about contemporary ML. If anything calling it AI is underselling it.

This is what it was called back in the day.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02478259
The big difference between my position and the article is that I don't believe the presence of women is a significant portion of the cause. At the core I'm making an economic supply and demand argument where the number of 'certified workers' matter, but whether the additional 'certified workers' are women, previously uncertified men, or immigrants is immaterial.

It's entirely plausible to have a situation where more women attend college than men, but where the women are using it as a dating pool and don't apply their degrees in the workforce. That situation wouldn't have much of an effect on the value of a college degree for men.

Mating opportunities (proxied by prestige and money, which are only loosely correlated) is undoubtedly the predominant male driving force, but it's an optimization function on the landscape which does not shape the landscape itself.

Tangentially to that I'm noting that the entire discussion is somewhat muddy due to terminology creep over the decades -- eg. a "tutor" today is fundamentally not the same thing as a "tutor" two hundred years ago.
Having the option is the point, people are different.
If you can't see that Musk's entire net worth is downstream of US government action and bubble idiots buying his lies, I can't help you.
I see what you mean (it doesn't quite work for me either), but it works for some people, so eh. I guess the sibling is right, it's subjective.
I was in a book club during COVID and we read Outliers. I knew the name but that was it. The club was epically correct and hung on its every word. I left.

He gives an air of objectivity while being completely subjective. Ugh, just ugh. I think the only other popular writer I detested having read was Robert Kaplan who has left the stage. I actually put his book in the compost.
But that's only because the proletariat does not collectively own the means of production -- yet.
>that LLMs are probabilistic models.

And the brain isn't ? How do you think you have such a seamlessly continuous view of reality ?
The brain is very probabilistic.

>Anything that isn't in the training data set will not be produced as an output.

This is not a restriction of probabilistic models. And it's certainly not a restriction of SOTA LLMs you can test today.

>be aware to the level of understanding we have of the math behind an LLM.

We have very little understanding of the meaning of the computations in large ANNs
I think the idea of a shared filesystem in general is bad. It’s not the 80s anymore where we’re logging on to a shared mainframe. Applications should be completely sandboxed from each other by default and only allowed to see what they need to see. Real sandboxing by default (not like systemd’s opt in sandboxing, which is an absolute mess) would eliminate entire classes of vulnerabilities.
FYI the solution in this case is to contact a Google employee you know. They can vouch for you and there is a procedure to recover the account.
Clickhouse scales from a local tool like Duckdb to a database cluster that can back your reporting applications and other OLAP applications.
A Man Who Found the Biggest Prime [video]
It's super cool to see something like this already exists! I wonder if one day something adjacent will become a standard part of major desktop OSs, like a dedicated "AI API" to allow models to connect to the OS, browse the windows and available actions, issue commands, etc. and remove the bitmap parsing altogether as this appears to do.