skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find sailing to be a fun low cost, sometimes even slightly profitable hobby… I own a very small (17 foot) cruising sailboat I maintain myself and get endless fun for less than the average teenager spends on a cell phone. It has an even smaller sailing dinghy/tender I built myself from old redwood fence planks. It would be the last thing I would sell even if destitute- because although small I could live on it for free, and can also use it to get fresh seafood for free- not to mention traveling without fuel!

(to paraphrase Sterling Hayden) my body is only about 6ft long… I sleep as well and have just as much fun on a 17 foot boat as I would on a 184ft boat- and despite being small mine is much more seaworthy than Bayesian was.
There's a compelling theory that Alexander's body was moved to the Basilica of Saint Mark in Venice, Italy!
With soldered RAM and storage it seems quite risky to get the lowest spec version of any new Mac, so I don't see much point in discussing the entry-level price point. Do they still start at 8GB? I recall hearing that negatively impacted the SSD's performance significantly and people were recommending 16GB minimum for M1 stuff.
In this case, though, the boat was designed to run in many conditions (e.g., under engine, at anchor, etc.) with the keel retracted. The keel was only intended for use under sail.
They just don't know how exponents work
I used Amazon RDS in my past job, which supports automatic failover and read replication. It was fine. Fairly low-maintenance on my part, which is always good.
I used to be able to solve the 3x3 in high school using memorized algorithms and then I lost interest since there was no reasoning involved. Your comment makes me want to pick it back up and learn 3-style, so thank you for the clear explanation!
> was it because they were incapable of swimming in the rough waters?

Maybe that was the case with the chef who was found outside of the vessel. The rest of the casualties unfortunately seems to have been trapped in the capsized vessel. (This is based on my present knowledge of rumours, the proper investigation is still on-going and our understanding might change.)
ask HN:Has anyone used Pinterest to attract traffic? what strategy did you use?
This is an obvious Apples vs Oranges comparison.

You should be comparing ChatGPT Search vs Gemini since they both are LLM that query a search engine for results that generates a text response based the the text it has been provided.

Google Search is an actual search engine and querying it like it is an LLM is going to give you bad results.

A good example of this is the query, What is Apple’s current stock price, and are there any recent news updates?

Why would you ever query Google like this? If you want stock prices and recent news you literally just type "Apple stock" in Google and you get everything you need.
They just as well might be, if they are treated as Alexander Reincarnate by everyone around them from a very young age.

Not all clones will survive the pressure of all the expectations upon them, but we only need one of them to accept his destiny as Kwisatz Haderach.
This is true of the feeds and everything else where there are abundant choices. Amazon putting its inhouse brands before others. Anything which has to be narrowed down is an algorithmic choice, either data driven or top-down.
Ok, haha. Well this question I ask myself too much already incl. reading books etc. on the topic. What is self, what is life, what is the "fear of death". Here I wrote down some highlights from Becker's Denial of Death if you're interested. These are deep topics, not sure if it makes sense talking about such fundamentally human issues with LLMs no matter how good they are right now: https://www.lostbookofsales.com/notes/the-denial-of-death-by...
You can also start the video in the web browser (haven’t tried the app), turn off the screen, turn it back on, hit play on lock screen, turn the screen off again. Podcasts for poor people
This is a great post. I’ve also been having a lot of fun working with embeddings, with lots of those pages being documentation. We write up a quick post on how are using them in prod, if you want to go from having an embedding to actually using them in a web app:

https://www.ethicalads.io/blog/2024/04/using-embeddings-in-p...
There's a dialog asking if you really want to quit without saving your work.
I'm pretty sure that a clone of Alexander the Great wouldn't start out as a true nobody.
Yep:

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/24/science/dna-generated-fac...

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/creepy-or-cool...
Retained property rights are property rights which continue to exist for an extended period after some initial transaction. So copyright lets creators control their work long after it is initially published. Similarly patents let inventors retain control over their inventions, leases allow landlords to retain control over real estate, etc. But you could easily have a book commissioned where an author gets a lump sum on publication and then has no control of the work afterwards, the same way you can buy a house instead of renting it. Most things you buy do not have retained property rights, and indeed that's typically what buying something implicitly refers to.
Have you updated? Mine has search, in 1.2024.289.
This is a classic xkcd workflow comic moment: https://xkcd.com/1172/
Technically speaking, there is VM (you could also consider GC to be a part of it, but in HN understanding it's an umbrella term that can mean many things). Because the type system facilities are there which is what allows reflection to work.

The main source of confusion as to why some believe that NativeAOT prohibits this are libraries which perform unbound reflection in a way that isn't statically analyzable (think accessing a method by a computed string that the compiler cannot see and not annotating with attributes the exact members you would like to keep and compile the code for) or libraries which rely on reflection emit. But even reflection emit works for limited scenarios where runtime compilation is not actually required like constructing a generic method where argument is a class - there could only be a single generic instantiation of __Canon argument in this case, which can be emitted at compile time. You can even expect the reflection to work faster under NativeAOT - it uses a more modern pure C# implementation and does not need to deal with the fact that types can be added or removed at runtime.
They are fairly new at the other GPU makers, but the NVIDIA GPUs have them starting with Turing, 6 years ago.

AMD GPUs have them starting with RDNA 2.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Language_Infrastructure

2012 is just the latest version. It was first published in 2001, and started in 2000. They're so close together that it's difficult to say if one would have been able to find the other.
Silly tradeoff, but typical of motor sailors/sailing.

Wind isn't blowing the right direction? Easier to motor than tack. Sailing upwind? Easier to motor than have the guests stumbling into walls due to heel. Variable winds? No wind? Have to be at <place> by <time>? Easier to motor.
Wow, this is huge.

There are so many other things described in ancient texts that have yet to be discovered. Herodotus for example is filled with references to places and things that were later discovered. However there are still many examples of pretty credible places and objects that remain undiscovered.

Also, fwiw, people for some reason think it’s ok or cool to criticize Herodotus’ history. It’s actually very good and he always says when he observed something for himself, or it’s something that is said by others and he felt it was important to document. However his assumptions and methods are always stated. I think honestly the main problem is it’s just a really long book so few ever read it.

Thucydides is even better.

It’s such a shame there is virtually nothing surviving from people who personally knew Alexander. His entire rise is foreshadowed all throughout Thucydides, which is amazing considering that it predates him considerably.
Is anyone qualified to weigh in on the academic robustness of this?

I only scanned a few bits but I was surprised to see statements like "the male skeleton had a knee injury, thus conclusively proving it was Philip" and "the female skeleton was 18 therefore proving it was Cleopatra since sources say she was young". (Paraphrasing) Etc etc. Is that all it takes to "prove" something? Could it not just be coincidence and it was someone else with a knee injury and some other ~18 year old? Or is that as far as we need to go in archeology to prove something? Put 2 and 2 together and come up with Cleopatra?

There also seems to be some sort of almost personal/ad hominem type stuff later on about other researchers who apparently criticised the author's work which surprised me ("Prag, Musgrave, and Neave continue to argue that I remain silent about Cyna ... as if it is an important issue"...)

Is this legit research?
And use Chatgpt to fill his mind, what could go wrong?
> They probably realized they need to revamp their whole search

It’s not the UI that should scare them, but rather the fact that their business model relies on showing answers in a format that users don’t want and someone is now presenting that. It’s like a running a bakery during the Atkins low carb phase, except this isn’t a phase that will disappear and Google doesn’t know how not to be a bakery.
It seems like an interesting attempt to get around legal issues.

They can't say "Minecraft" because that's a Microsoft trademark, but they can use Minecraft images as training data, because everyone (including Microsoft) is using proprietary data to train diffusion models. There's the issue that the outputs obviously resemble Minecraft, but Microsoft has its own problems with Bing and DALL-E generating images that obviously resemble trademarked things (despite guardrails).
This topic always leads me to the ship of theseus wiki page https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus and I always waste a couple of minutes thinking about which is the original ship, specially in the form where you replace all the pieces bit by bit, but keep the pieces and then put the old pieces back together.
Compared to the prince of Macedon? Yeah, pretty much zero political power.
That episode presents quite a plausible scenario for why notable historical figures might be cloned, in my opinion: Participants in a contemporary power struggle wanting to use their talismanic status for political ends.
This is a controversial claim, FWIW.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/30/world/europe/alexander-th...
This is the most HN comment I’ve seen in recent memory.
A crucial point to understand: unbeknownst to me, my passwords ended up on a device that I didn't specifically authorize to download them.

The good news is that the device is owned by me and under my control. However, since it's just a test machine with no personal data—or so I believed—it's less protected than my other devices. For example, it has a weak login password, no Filevault, and no biometrics (Mac mini).

In general, the presence of my passwords in the cloud is an unwanted and unnecessary liability for me. I understand that for other people, cloud storage is a benefit, and I don't wish to deprive them of that choice. Nonethless, Apple deprived me of a choice in this case.
I use superwhisper for this.
Creative Writing and Expository Writing. Flip Sides of the Same Coin? – Ubiquity
This caused me a problem because I signed up with my personal email address, and then wanted a separate account for work but I only have one phone number and they won't let me use the same one on two accounts. I don't really care about giving them my phone number (it's out there everywhere anyway) but this has really reduced my ability to use their product.
I'll keep using mine https://github.com/Merkoba/Meltdown
It is a nasty job, respirator with VOC filters mandatory and the clothes you wear doing it will never be the same again
That was my reaction back in 2020, too. It was exciting to meet and talk with people from many different countries without leaving home.

Now that I’m back to attending in-person conferences occasionally, I do appreciate the stronger personal connections that form there. However, though weaker, the connections I’ve made online over the past four years have been worth something, too, and they never would have happened if not for those online meetings.
This says something fascinating about information processing in both biological and AI systems. Both systems compress information: the brain creates efficient neural patterns through experience and AI develops internal representations through training. Forcing verbalization "decompresses" this efficient encoding, potentially losing subtle patterns. Hence, for a task like visual recognition, which is optimized to occur almost instantly in a parallel process, you will only degrade performance by running it in a serial chain of thought sequence.
The surprise is that it’s only the second level chip (Standard, Pro, Max, Ultra) but that the M4 Pro outperforms both the M3 Max (there is no M3 Ultra at this point) and the M2 Ultra (a chip with almost twice as many cores as the M4 Pro).
If you used programs like Lotus back in the day, you'd realize that that you tended to develop muscle memory to just quit in many cases. You also had crashes that kept you from saving as well.
they can't fetch the memories and psychological traumas so far
It is law, just not in every European country, but it's definitely not unusual.

And yes, companies often go with the lowest common denominator across Europe to avoid any doubt when dealing with multinational people. In my personal case it could be reasonably claimed that laws of 5 different countries apply to me based on citizenship, registered residence, actual places of work... Of course my employer wants to be covered.
So what taxes are there that don't have problems with tax avoidance? For example the U.S.has a shadow economy of about 10% of GDP where people are not paying income, sales, social security taxes.
In The Boys from Brazil, they try to get around that by creating circumstances similar to that experienced by the historical warlord.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boys_from_Brazil_(film)
To destroy every existing country from Egypt to Pakistan, replacing them with a one-man-rule empire? And killing a large number of people to get there? And leaving behind a number of feuding generals when he dies, who create their own one-man-rule sub-empires?

No thanks. What we have now isn't great, but I'm not sure that's an improvement.
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The top search result for me -- below German news snippets complaining about US politics -- is Joe Rogan Experience #2219 - Donald Trump on Youtube, presumably what you're looking for. It's also number 3, the same thing on Spotify.
From a quick skim: what's interesting about this study from an HN perspective is that they used Alphafold (or more specifically Alphafold-Multimer: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.10.04.463034v2....) to screen more than 1400 different proteins that were likely to be present on zebrafish sperm to see which ones might bind to other known sperm fertility factors.

Lo, and behold, they found a protein (i.e, the product of a particular zebrafish gene) that Alphafold-Multimer predicted would bind to two of the known sperm factors. And it turned out to be a kind of missing link: the three sperm proteins together were predicted form a stable structure. And, that structure ("complex") sticks to the only egg protein known to be required for fertilization! (Where all of this was first predicted using Alphafold-Multimer, then experimentally confirmed to some degree.)

Not only that, it turns out human versions ("orthologs") of these three sperm proteins exist, and their experimental evidence at least suggests that they stick together, forming a complex as well. Which presumably sticks to some human egg protein. Pretty neat.

Why this matters: Consider. 20 years ago, I briefly worked for a lab that used genetics to study fertilization in C. elegans (fast breeding, millimeter-long worms with a lot of infrastructure in place for scientific study). Sure, we were studying worms, but the PI had a personal interest in (in)fertility, and it was his long bet that fundamental research would help medicine solve infertility.

Now it looks like the bet is showing promise of paying off: back then, there didn't seem to be any vertebrate equivalents of the worm genes we found. Maybe worm fertilization was just too far removed. But the top "related article" is from my old lab (https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(23)...) and the abstract points out that several worm genes they and related labs found are, in fact, equivalents of the vertebrate genes discussed in TFA! So progress accelerates.
Hah, I'm not the only one that brings up this book in this context.

The way this is wrought, in the novel, is a savant engineer writes a bot framework that can cheaply and quickly disseminate torrents of misinformation about a provided subject, and then open sources this framework. He basically broke the internet on purpose as a sort of accelerationist move I suppose.
I guess having my device run code that doesn't benefit my experience, unnecessarily consumes resources, and comes from somewhere I don't know is technically "fine". To me, it sounds like a security, privacy, and efficiency nightmare.
Kinesis.js – Easily create interactive animations
Kinesis.js originated as a collection of Vue components (vue-kinesis) but has evolved into a complete TypeScript library compatible with any framework. Dedicated libraries for React and Vue are also in development to provide framework-specific support.
For front-end web development:

- Many Google dev rels, former or present, are great. For example, Jake Archibald, Paul Lewis, Una Kravets, Adam Argyle, Rachel Andrew, Bramus Van Damme, Surma, Jhey Tompkins

- Web performance community is pretty rad. Harry Roberts is good. Tim Kadlec. Philip Walton's talk on service workers at a Smashing Conf was fantastic. Alex Russell is always good for a sobering perspective on how bad things are with the web. Barry Pollard is good

- Example conferences with great content: CSS Day (2024 was a good one; I remember the talks of Tab Atkins, Sara Soueidan, and Rachel Andrew as being very good), performance.now

- Among speakers on React topics, Ryan Florence is usually great; Mark Erikson too; sometimes Kent C. Dodds...

- Love Ben Lesh (observables and async programming); and Alex Rickabaugh's (Angular team) explanations of Angular signals
My summary: they claim (with evidence) that they found the sacred purple sarapis (tunic) of Alexander the Great, and possibly some of his other things.
I have an 8GB M1 MacBook Pro and it’s the perfect computer. I always have lots of tabs and Docker open etc. It works great. I want to upgrade at some point but probably don’t need to anytime soon.
Excellent, thanks. I'll do some reading!
I have a physics analogy which is similar. Vested interests set up magnetic fields in social media / legacy media (lot of things discussed prominently in social media is just what legacy media is saying. So legacy media is a sense is setting up an anchor points and people have to distribute themselves around it) to flip magnetic domains to align with the narrative.
I'll go a bit further and say that they don't claim it's Alexander's tomb, but someone that was buried with Alexander's artifacts (namely, his brother)
> Is it terrible for the environment?

> I don’t know. After the model has been created (trained), I’m pretty sure that generating embeddings is much less computationally intensive than generating text. But it also seems to be the case that embedding models are trained in similar ways as text generation models2, with all the energy usage that implies. I’ll update this section when I find out more.

Although I do care about the environment, this question is completely the wrong one if you ask me. There is the public opinion (mainstream media?) some kind of idea that we should use less AI and somehow this would solve our climate problems.

As a counterexample, let's go to the extreme. Let's ban Google Maps because it does take computational resources from the phone. As a result more people will take wrong routes, and thus use more petrol. Say you use one gallon of petrol extra, that then wastes 34 kWh. This is of course the equivalent of running 34 powerful vacuum cleaners on full power for an hour. In contrast, say you downloaded your map, then the total "cost" is only the power used by the phone. A mobile phone has a battery of about 4 mAh, so 0,004 Ah * 4.2 V = 0.168 W, or 0.000168 kW. This means that the phone is about 200 000 times as efficient! And then we didn't even consider the time-saving for the human.

It's the same with running embeddings for doc generation. An Nvidia H100 consumes about 700 W, so say 1 kWh after an hour of running. 1 kWh should be enough to do a bunch of embedding runs. If this then saves, for example, one workday including the driving back and forth to the office, then again the tradeoff is highly in favor of the compute.
> Why would you go "Nope, better if keel isn't lowered"?

We don't know yet. The rumour is that the mechanism of the extendable keel was prone to banging in the lowered state. You don't want to be disturbing the sleep of the guests paying you fortunes. That plus the also rumoured fact that the operating manual only required it to be lowered when sailing could explain why the crew did not opt to lower it at anchor.

All of the above is based on internet whispers. The investigation report hopefully will answer this question with authority.
So, HN, what's the consensus? Are you going to switch when support for Windows 10 runs out, or are you not? Or are you going to switch to Linux?

What about for your non-tech family members?
Scary to consider. And if that's so, it can also happen after your integrity check...
or that they're already confident in technical ability and looking for a culture fit.
They Are Scrubbing the Internet
"There were some strange ideas about the hierarchies of food, etc."

A food "pyramid", if you will.

/JK
Ironically, the day after I posted that my trackpad on my 2021 M1 Pro MBP stopped working. Doh!
It's a great idea, but could they please change the name?

There is already an RTP protocol [1] for UDP media streaming, and that is already frequently confused with RDP [2], for GUI remoting.

There is also an rtp:// URI scheme in use in various media applications [3, 4] to identity streaming endpoints.

So I'd kindly request not to increase the confusion even more.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_Transport_Protocol

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_Desktop_Protocol

[3] https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-protocols.html#rtp

[4] https://wiki.2n.com/faqaudio/en/rtp-destinations-how-to-test...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/10/30/apple-8gb-16gb-ram-mac/
As usual, "Conjecture Presented as Fact in Headline"

They found a fabric in a royal tomb in Greece that fits the description of Alexander's famous sarapis.
What is more likely - that this is Alexander's sarapis itself or that a very rich guy had one made just like it?
While this case makes for a pretty fun story, there's other case of 'fake' event posted on social media with more sinister reasons behind it, like when russian troll farm used social media to try to organize protest that were bound to devolve into riots [1].

[1] https://edition.cnn.com/2018/06/26/us/russian-trolls-exploit...
The quote continues with "That doesn’t mean for sure that they’re wrong".

> anyone would instantly notice that string theory is bs.

People said that about this wonky BS from Einstein too. And Einstein himself had some issues with that wonky BS of quantum mechanics (and he was not alone).
Whats the reason to build your own command structure for filename, author, etc. instead of using the existing git tools like `git format-patch` and using `git am` for applying patches?