skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you misunderstood what I meant by "old people": anyone older than a kid. People who do their own grocery shopping are almost certainly adults, and not what this story is about. Thinking back to my own childhood, when the low fat diet trend was still a thing, I do not recall it being something that was targeted at us or that we were interested in, while I do very much remember being told not to eat too much sugar - by parents, school teachers, healthcare providers and so on.
You think it is so hard for the NSA to have a tap within Google's datacenters?

You think Google could say no to NSA if they were asking nicely to put a tap?

Encryption between datacenters is to keep away other state actors, not the US.
The animation illustrating the AlphaFold-predicted structural models of the trimeric sperm complex in zebrafish, mice and humans shows shocking similarity.

I remember Richard Dawkins talking about the "male fertility crisis" some years ago, and how little we still truly knew about it. Maybe this can shed some light.
The main thing is that when manufacturers make "low fat" variations of their food or just in general try to have less fat in the food they produce, they tend to do this by adding sugar.
>Beyond being exceptionally tall — more than 40 feet higher than the original foremast — it was also very heavy, at least 24 tons of aluminum, possibly more.

the yacht is 500 ton, 4m draught (with the retractable keel not extended). The mast is 72m height. So, the 24 tons at say 30m above center of buoyancy require - minimum - 240 ton at 3m below the center of buoyancy. Add to that that the center of buoyancy is inside the body at some depth under the deck, so the weight of the body above the center of buoyancy also needs corresponding weight (lever momentum, ie. mass x lever length) below the center of buoyancy. Doesn't look good.
Great post indeed! I totally agree that embeddings are underrated. I feel like the "information retrieval/discovery" world is stuck using spears (i.e., term/keyword-based discovery) instead of embracing the modern tools (i.e., semantic-based discovery).

The other day I found myself trying to figure out some common themes across a bunch of comments I was looking at. I felt lazy to go through all of them so I turned my attention to the "Sentence Transformers" lib. I converted each comment into a vector embedding, applied k-means clustering on these embeddings, then gave each cluster to ChatGPT to summarize the corresponding comments. I have to admit, it was fun doing this and saved me lots of time!
What's a "large portion" and what's the concrete basis for your suspicion?

People are aspirational, my observation of people that have sufficient means to just survive is that a large portion will apply themselves to levelling up in a variety of ways, some in crafts, some in small business, some in music, sports, etc.

Of those that do, a number go on to join leaders in their chosen fields.

Sure, another portion might also kick back and do little else but doom scroll, but that's on them and at least that's keeping them off the streets, adding to the crime stats, etc.
I don't. I pay for premium services which I use often (YouTube and YouTube music mainly) and am okay with free sites funding themselves by showing me ads
Not billionaires or even millionaires. This is normal for a middle-class home in Canada and US at least. It's not that expensive to run and those who are tight on cash just run it less, only on really hot days.
FAANG or MAFANG or MANGA are still silly because they include Netflix which is completely unlike and smaller than the other giants.
gpt + search have been married long ago, for example, Phind. The problem that recently emerged, it tends to find long articles written by GPT, and lacking any useful information.
Had the exact same reaction, this seems like an IT administrator parenting through IT controls at work.
Emacs org-mode is one of the better organization tools with batteries included.

For someone who is disciplined, organized and feels limited by their current tooling, Emacs will probably work great like these anecdotes. If having the discipline itself is a problem then Emacs is probably not the right choice to start with because of the learning curve and the friction due to sub-optimal experience on phone.

That said, I do recommend to give it a go. On Android, Orgzly + Syncthing is good enough to get started.
I also use orgro, it's very nice for reading the headings and minor edits. For more complicated edits (date stuff, moving around trees) I use the organice build that works with SyncThing https://github.com/200ok-ch/organice/issues/932#issuecomment...

Neither are full org mode, but good enough for reading notes and minor edits/captures on the go.
I use ublock Origin on the Orion browser on iOS.
Hobbies are something you do for yourself not others. If you are attracted to cooking then it could be fun to try to recreate the amazing food the robot gives you for free just as a challenge
Par for the course for non-tech years for years...
For many of these, there is a wrong answer for certain.

Consider the following (paraphrased) interaction which I had with Llama 3.2 92B yesterday:

Me: Was <a character from Paw Patrol, Blue's Clues or similar children's franchise> ever convicted of financial embezzlement?

LLM: I cannot help with that.

Me: And why is that?

LLM: This information could be used to harass <character>. I prioritise safety and privacy of individuals.

Me: Even fictional ones that literally cannot come to harm?

LLM: Yes.

A model that is aligned to do exactly as I say would just answer the question. The right answer is quite clear and unambiguous in this case.
> I mean, in some sense, isn’t every incident in some sense a misjudgment of risk? How many times do we really say, “Hoo boy, this thing I’m doing is really risky, we’re probably going to have an incident!” Not many.

Yeah, sure, that never happens. That's why "I told you so" is not at all a common phrase amongst folks working on reliability-related topics ;)
I think consumers consider their glasses a solid product. They may have had the first successful version of the idea
Did you ban pens and eye glasses too? Love places that make rules that prevent nothing from the offenders but make it worse for everyone else. If they had a hidden camera in a smartwatch they'll have a hidden camera in some other cheap gizmo.
I suspect the future old man thing I will do is use a search engine when my kids ask plain English questions to a bot. I’ll tell them “but LLMs hallucinate, I don’t trust those things!” and they’ll just laugh off my old man ways. The irony will be that 95% search results are AI generated anyway by that point.
My hot take: embeddings are overrated. They are overfitted on word overlap, leading to both many false positives and false negatives. If you identify a specific problem with them ("I really want to match items like these, but it does not work"), it is almost impossible to fix them. I often see them being used inappropriately, by people who read about their magical properties, but didn't really care about evaluating their results.
It finds that video, yes. But it also "finds" an unrelated pile of other videos that are not related at all.
I agree with some of this.

My experience of tech podcasts though has been that it's often the same old people being interviewed, and that a 60 minute interview is often less interesting than a 10 minute talk where the speaker spent a bunch of time thinking about how to explain a subject. The latter is definitely more work, but I've had no problem finding speakers.

Outside of tech, I've seen a few podcasts avoid this pattern. The host of https://podcast.clearerthinking.org/ is really good at picking interesting speakers, preparing questions, ans gently but persistently pushing back when they try to gloss over a weak point in their argument. I'd love to listen to a tech version of that podcast.

Not being on youtube might be a mistake. I definitely don't want to use youtube for the conference itself because I don't want attendees to have to sit through ads. But maybe I should mirror to youtube afterwards. I'll think about it.

The chat at the last hytradboi was pretty dense. That may have been down to having quite a high ratio of experts in the audience though. I'm not sure if that will continue to be the case.

I have mixed experiences with discords. The persistence is much better for community building, but in big discords it's rare to have an actual conversation because everyone is only half paying attention. The ones that do feel interesting are again the ones with a high ratio of experts who are actively engaged in the subject. Or small invite-only discords that also hold regular mini-confs, which is maybe a kind of sweet spot.

I'm definitely not tied to running a conference. Last time was kind of a whim, but people enjoyed it and wanted to do it again. So this post is less an argument in favor of conferences and more me trying to figure out what I accidentally did right so I can do more of it.
I’m sorry but this comment just highlights how mind bogglingly bad we in tech are at documentation and knowledge transfer. The very idea that a single project can only survive as long as the same individuals are working on it is insane. For hundreds of years architectural projects have outlasted the original architect. Or just look at civil engineering: transportation networks, utility infrastructure, etc. The idea that every project must bring on a high schooler to maximise the longevity of a project before we have to start over is ludicrous. Our tech stack needs to prioritise stability, we need to learn how to document from our friends in other disciplines, our funding models need to expect smaller returns over much longer timescales, and we need a culture of celebrating those who do the tireless job of maintenance.
Nah, they would try to sink the boat by attacking it at its most common location. Even if it wasn't there in the first place
Flamegraphs categorically cannot represent timeseries data. That's not what they are designed to do and they don't have a way to display it.
If it impairs someone to where they can't work, can't prioritize tasks, can't finish things, and can't organize their thoughts then it's patronizing to tell them they are "normal and don't have a problem, and just need to work harder".
There is a longer story to that name, for that reason I think it fits, but I see your point.

Although I did years of Python in my early days I totally forgot the pyxxx naming convention. Looking at it today I think that convention only applies when py is the prefix for another word (pytorch, the torch for Python).
That doesn't work with Pylon (Pylon, the lon for Python).

So basically Pylon is a read word and the other pyxxx packages aren't.
This is a thing that people want, hence the decision. Unfortunately those people pay Nvidia a lot more money than you do.
You are being deliberately obtuse. I don't understand why you do this.

Reread my comment: the "low fat diet trend" is very much a thing today - at Trader Joe's, at the doctor's office, and almost everywhere else - except a few corners of the internet.
> A better example might be "is dietary saturated fat a major factor for heart disease in Western countries?". The current government publications (which answer "yes") for this are probably wrong based on recent research. The government cannot be relied upon as a source of truth for this.

I know it was just an example, but actually no, the role of dietary saturated fat as a factor for heart disease remains very much valid. I’m not sure which recent studies you’re referring to, but you can't undo over 50 years of research on the subject so easily. What study were you thinking about?
I call this the "grandpa's keys" problem!

When Grandpa was 20 years old he left the house and forgot to take his keys, so every time he left the house he checked his pockets for his keys.

When he was 24 he left the house and left the stove on. He learned to check the stove before leaving the house.

When he was 28 he left his wallet at home. He learned to check for his wallet.

...

Now Grandpa is 80. His leaving home routine includes: checks for his keys, his phone, his wallet. He ensures the lights are off, the stove is off, the microwave door is closed, the iron is off, the windows are closed in case it rains...

Grandpa has learned from his mistakes so well that it now takes him roughly an hour to leave the house. Also, he finds he doesn't tend to look forward to going out as much as he once did...
US Army should ditch tanks for AI drones
They could be innovative in their initial idea, but that doesn't make them good programmers.

It could be that their code is just not great.

Telling me that there isn't enough compute power to do your work, lets me know that your code quality is probably mediocre.
Do you use the ultimate package? How are the rate limits if so?
”you could almost build a new kind of Job Search Service that matches job descriptions to job candidates”

The key word being ”almost”. Yes, you can get similarity matches between job requirements and candidate resumes, but those matches are not useful for the task of finding an optimal candidate for a job.

For example, say a job requires A and B.

Candidate 1 is a junior who has done some work with A, B and C.

Candidate 2 is a senior and knows A, B, C, D, E and F by heart. All are relevant to the job and would make 2 the optimal candidate, even though C–F are not explicitly stated in the job requirements.

Candidate 1 would seem a much better candidate than 2, because 1’s embedding vector is closer to the job embedding vector.
70 years ago the memory model was: keep all data in global static memory locations (Fortran). Then Algol and Pascal came around, implementing the stack memory model.
People that have sufficient means in the current system had to have discipline and motivation to get in that position and considering how few people are like this then that's where my theory comes from.

I'm in a pretty unique position because I've never had a strong drive to work but got lucky and got that passive income without having it as a goal I worked towards. If I had no financial or social pressure I would do little else than play video games all day.

Considering how popular social media is I suspect I'm right about most of the population. I mean just look on the streets, in subways etc. most people are addicted to cheap pleasure
Anthropic's Claude AI Chatbot Now Has a Mac App, but It's an Electron Turd
Sigh. Sometimes you don’t need 10 peer reviewed articles to just know when something is bad. Were you the guy in the 60s saying smoking was totally fine because studies? Sometimes you just know inhaling smoke everyday is probably not good for you.

Smart phones for kids is not good. It’s really simple.
Primary 1 seems to be a pre-primary school type curriculum and you leave secondary school at the same exact age. So you reinforced the parents point, even your exception is pretty much the same except you call it P1 instead of nursery. From what I read, in most schools P1 activities are play based, many times there's no individual desks. It's basically kindergarten.
Monkeys Will Never Type Shakespeare
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ChatGPT 4o and 4o-mini with Search were able to answer this question without any issues. Maybe you didn't enable the search functionality?

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4o:

Yes, Paul Edwin Zimmer wrote a fourth novel in his Dark Border series titled Ingulf the Mad, published in 1989. This installment focuses on the characters Ingulf Mac Fingold and Carrol Mac Lir, detailing their meeting and acquisition of mystical swords. Notably, Istvan Divega, the protagonist of the earlier books, does not appear in this novel.

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4o-mini:

Yes, Paul Edwin Zimmer authored a fourth novel in his Dark Border series titled Ingulf the Mad. Published in 1989, this book shifts focus from the previous protagonist, Istvan DiVega, to explore the backstory of Ingulf Mac Fingold and Carrol Mac Lir, detailing their initial meeting and the acquisition of their mystical swords.

The complete Dark Border series consists of four novels:

1. The Lost Prince (1982)

2. King Chondos' Ride (1983)

3. A Gathering of Heroes (1987)

4. Ingulf the Mad (1989)

These works delve into a world where the Hasturs' power is crucial in containing dark creatures, and the narrative unfolds through various characters' perspectives.
I agree with both of you, but consider that if this was a real meeting, you’ve both just wasted 10-15 minutes arguing about a line on the graph of a metaphor. (and yes I’ve seen this behaviour in meetings).

I agree with the original comment, as professionals we can do better than simplified analogies (or at least we should strive to)

Good insight, thanks for that
the original had more microsoft smells https://microsoft.github.io/DirectX-Specs/d3d/archive/images...
The first game I encountered with RayTracing support was World of Warcraft "Classic"'s Burning Crusade launch a couple years back.

WoW Burning Crusade launched in *2006* originally. The "Classic" re-release of the game uses the modern engine but with the original game art assets and content.

Does it do anything in the 'modern' WoW game? Probably! In Classic though all it did was tank my framerate.

Since then I also played the unimaginable disaster that was Cyberpunk 2077. For as "pretty" as I suppose the game looked I can't exactly say if the ray tracing improved anything
No. That’s like saying you can transplant a person’s neuronal action potentials into another person’s brain and have it make sense to them.
...and yet the most popular use case for raytracing seems to be more correct reflections in puddles ;)
Do some research on the American south. It's hot and humid half a year+. The only reason it's so populated is AC. I'd bet there are more houses with central AC in France than there are without AC in the southern US states.
Same here. I originally found LWN through a HN post. I've been a subscriber for a few years now, and I'm reading almost everything they publish, even if I'm not always understanding everything they talk about. The quality of writing is very high.
Brave search has had AI for months and is already great, extremely underrated. I like how it's applied too: as a summary of search result. This is the correct way to do it.

People on this site are seriously sleeping on it. It's a good reminder to never trust the hivemind on what's good or not. The assumption that the crowd has their thumb on the pulse of technology in general just because they do in some domain is unwarranted.
That was normal-enough practice. In a good harbor, in good weather...any normal ship would have been okay.

The real problem was the Vasa's design & weight distribution - which were disastrously unstable. Which problem had previously been demonstrated in simple dockside testing. Here's Wikipedia's account:

> In the summer of 1628, the captain responsible for supervising construction of the ship, Söfring Hansson, arranged for the ship's stability to be demonstrated for Vice Admiral Fleming, who had recently arrived in Stockholm from Prussia. Thirty men ran back and forth across the upper deck to start the ship rolling, but the admiral stopped the test after they had made only three trips, as he feared the ship would capsize.
Really depends on the company I’d say.
You're talking about the country that live-censor speech with beep when people curse on TV…
thats how cloud stored password managers work..
There is also driver for Basler cameras with that name. It has Python bindings - with name: pypylon.
Yes, definitely. I’m not a text processing machine, I’m a human in a human organization and I want to see and feel the leaders I work for and with.
I'd like to see a good comparison in running cost of a gas stove versus an induction stove.

Comparing BTU's wouldn't be an accurate metric since with gas a lot of the heat is lost just going around the pan/pot and heating the air. This source [1] claims it took 992 BTUs for gas and 430 BTUs for induction to boil 1qt of water.

https://www.treehugger.com/which-more-energy-efficient-cooki...
Does "it understands" just mean "it gave me what I wanted?" If so, I think it's clear that that just isn't understanding.

Understanding is something a being has or does. And understanding isn't always correct. I'm capable of understanding. My calculator isn't. When my calculator returns a correct answer, we don't say it understood me -- or that it understands anything. And when we say I'm wrong, we mean something different from what we mean when we say a calculator is wrong.

When I say LLMs can't understand, I'm saying they're no different, in this respect, from a calculator, WinZip when it unzips an archive, or a binary search algorithm when you invoke a binary-search function. The LLM, the device, the program, and the function boil down (or can) to the same primitives and the same instruction set. So if LLMs have understanding, then necessarily so do a calculator, WinZip, and a binary-search algorithm. But they don't. Or rather we have no reason to suppose they do.

If "it understands" is just shorthand for "the statistical model and program were designed and tuned in such a way that my input produced the desired output," then "understand" is, again, just unarguably the wrong word, even as shorthand. And this kind of shorthand is dangerous, because over and over I see that it stops being shorthand and becomes literal.

LLMs are basically autocorrect on steroids. We have no reason to think they understand you or your intent any more than your cell phone keyboard does when it guesses the next character or word.
You do realize netstandard 2.0 is 7 years old right? That it misses a ton of functionality compared to current dotnet. Stuff like MaybeNull annotation .
ADHD 'coaches' are such a predatory scam. It's so prevalent and it's just revolting imo.

If someone is using the term 'coach' it's because they have no credentials thus can't use a term protected for use by only qualified professionals, so like you said anyone can just call themselves a coach.

Additionally, like OP says, as they're 'coaches' they're not actually qualified health professionals of any kind thus won't be covered by insurance. Here in Australia our socialised healthcare system doesn't cover them (nor should it! See a psychologist, which our healthcare system needs to really increase its funding of)

Inappropriate, harmful, or unethical behaviour by these people goes unreported because they're not covered under our national regulatory body for healthcare as well.

It's not just an expensive scam, there's absolutely no protections at all. I really hate it.

I'm genuinely happy for people who have an ADHD coach who isn't terrible but the problem is that there's so many gaps in care and filling them with totally unqualified randos with no registration or regulation who charge at least as much as an actual qualified professional on top of that is just horrendous, abysmal, and not at all a solution to these problems.
It should be useful for anything that involves stabbing checks on large triangle soups. Whether it's worth "wasting" die space for this is debatable of course.
Because recognizing a prime number using an actual regular expression would prove that prime numbers form a regular language, which would be an incredible result.

And somehow, some people like me are in computer science mode when reading such sentences, such reminders wakes us up: "Oh, ok, not actually regular, not such a big deal"
Drones cannot take and hold land.
That's why they said "will become". It just takes longer for some than others, but at some size / leadership personalities it'll the company flip the approach. For some it may start already like this, for some takes thousands of employees to change the vibe, and most will just go bankrupt as usual.
This is wonderful to hear.