skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great work, op. As others have said, encryption is vital to such a project. In fact if your ethos is privacy, it would be great marketing material to assure users that this is in fact resistant to basic infiltration.
I think recall is a fantastic idea, even for professionals and corporate env. But the kind of sensitive information that is handled by employees cannot risk being leaked from such a tool.
British College Students Convinced Authorities That Flying Saucers Were Invading
The power generated won't be used to power homes. It will be used to train LLMs. This does nothing to move us away from carbon. I agree nuclear should be utilized but only for the benefit of the working class. Nuclear for the sake of capital interests is a recipe for disaster.
maybe related: Geert Hofstede's cultural dimensions

Started with 4 of them, added 5th, nowadays about 6-7 depending who you ask :/
Note they apply to the individual, group/s and larger/country level - each one can be different point/blob in that space..

https://www.theculturefactor.com/country-comparison-tool

https://clearlycultural.com/geert-hofstede-cultural-dimensio...

https://geerthofstede.com/landing-page/
As long as I can I'll always believe in my ideas
It’s niche enough to be a major industry. Cold storage at extreme scales for very low cost is higher value than it appears - there’s a lot of data that isn’t worth very much individually but has extremely high value if it’s ever needed - but you can’t know ahead of time which data that is. That’s all about ultra low price per gb storage that’s high durable.
All this articles insisting on the Beatles stuff are repetitive. There is life out of the 60's and concerts have evolved a lot since that.

Would not pay a dime for that crappy Beatles concert. Would pay for Pink Floyd pulse, U2 hanging car-lamps in Zooropa, the Michael Jackson anti-gravity boots, Ziggy and the Spiders of Mars, Alice Cooper or Marylin Manson ruling over the outrage rock theater, A-ha's Rock In Rio, Pink doing circus antics, Genesis, Dire Straits, Madonna, Radiohead, Chemical Brothers, Nirvana, Coldplay, Gaga, Swift, Robbie Williams, Parliament Funkadelic, Depeche mode ...

Any of those had astounding new original effects for its time, better lights, electronics and hardware and often very skilled musicians. I will not discuss that the Beatles songs are hugely popular but as musicians, they were average, and frankly a little boring on scene.

And this is just a western-centric and limited point of view of course. Can't talk about B'z or Glay concerts, for example.
Then every physical (and nature) law is wrong. Only math is right. There's not a single law that covers full regime for at least one definition of "full".
Were these aftermarket products? It sounds like they only worked because they were bespoke. If Toyota started putting these switches on all cars it would simply become common knowledge among thieves right?
He of whom my enemy is enamored must, ipso facto, also be my enemy.
Thank's dude, this comment is really important to me.
The problem for me is that without patents I have no reason to do anything outside my own area.

If I don't build it myself and can exploit myself, I get nothing and somebody else gets everything, so why shouldn't I just shut up completely? If I contribute something to the design of nuclear power plants, that the nuclear plant people would never come up with because people from my field, whatever that is, don't look at their stuff, then I obviously can't build my own nuclear power plant to compete with them.

The only way to ensure that people have an incentive to invest their time into things outside of the stuff they do to get money is by giving them patents.

Another reason patents are nice is that it's that you get something for your actual contribution. This means that it offers particularly skilled people who aren't rich a chance to actually build a company and have something real.
Thanks for pointing to the guidelines, I didn't realize I was the one breaking them by commenting that I flagged this. But there is "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter. "

I have a feeling that the research on its own would not have generated the discussion that the toot did, because the toot really just prompted people to give their own impression without discussing the actual research. Sometimes I flag stuff just because it's flame bait, maybe the submission didn't break guidelines but the comments will be snarky and shallow and not conducive to building the community culture. And I rely on the democratic aspect of HN, if my flag is frivolous so be it, no harm done.
Boltz-1: Democratizing Biomolecular Interaction Modeling
You seem to just be arguing about the definition of "gravity" now.
Because we don’t believe it’s equal quality to our job, so we see cheap competition arriving with swathes of bad products, but no way for customers to distinguish what makes quality. Plus we all create bugs anyway.
Parchive, a.k.a. “.par2” files

Parchive is a file format for redundant files. If any of the original files are damaged, the redundancy lets them be restored. It is used for transmission over faulty networks (like Usenet) and for protecting storage (like backups).

Version 2 clients had 7+ million downloads. Version 2 had bugs and limitations, so I’ve designed Version 3 with fixes and new features, such as incremental backups. Version 3 needs a reference implementation to be coded and tested.

It could be coded by a single person. The reference implementation just needs to read and write files and compute on the data. A follow on would be a high-performance implementation using threads, heavy optimization, and a static or dynamic library interface. It’s a good project for someone looking to prove their coding skills while doing the good deed of protecting data.

https://parchive.github.io/
The tape market is highly price-fixed and innovation-restricted. Intel has more or less of a total monopoly in this space. It's essentially LTO or go home. Your one and only option is enterprise grade hardware at enterprise prices. Even on eBay, prices are well beyond what I'd consider consumer-accessible. Your best bet is to piece together a fiber channel system and hope you get lucky on a cheap used drive.

IBM is wholly uninterested in selling tape to consumers, so you aren't going to have a good time trying to use it anyway.
I used Claude (and a bit of ChatGPT) to write a multi-pass recursive descent parser for a search query DSL:

https://github.com/williamcotton/search-input-query

Why multi-pass? So multiple semantic errors can be reported at once to the user!

The most important factor here is that I've written lexers and parsers beforehand. I was very detailed in my instructions and put it together piece-by-piece. It took probably 100 or so different chats.

Try it out with the GUI you see in the gif in the README:

git clone git@github.com:williamcotton/search-input-query.git
cd search-input-query/search-input-query-demo
npm install
npm run dev
The level of definition you see in many movies also requires significant dehydration to thin-out your skin.

I expect anyone going through with the plastic surgery wants to look that way.
But, "never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of hard drives".

The intriguing use case (thinking as a consumer) is ~2tb "hot", and effectively treating the remainder tape as kindof "append-only/WAL" (and: e.g. incremental backups).

I have been randomly ripping my DVDs, mostly keeping the transcoded MP4s, but hesitant to delete the ISO's because they require physical handling and _time_ to re-rip.

If it's ~2min to seek to an 8gb ISO, that's potentially faster than re-downloading it from somewhere offsite, and would match my hypothetical use cases really well.

Keeping a local ~2tb drive backed up to a ~4tb+40tb "ssd-tape-hard-drive" is probably cheaper than most long-term cloud stuff (backblaze ~$6/tb/mo!!, glacier ~$4/tb/mo, but with lots of asterisks on retrieval time), and simpler than messing around with a NAS.

Glad I don't truly have these problems!
I dream of the day that we are finally free of the iron grip the web browser has on the minds of those that would create the future of technology.
Do you have a good source where could learn more about rolling codes & cryptography immobilizers? The wiki for it just brushes over it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immobiliser
Volunteers, not FEMA are core to disaster response. How do we best support them?
> literally how a submarine sonar works

And dolphins and whales, no need to go to submarines.
Going by the FAQ, it does dynamic prompts too.
How’s the performance with Python? What’s the overhead?
>considering the size of the model.

We don't know the size of Claude 3.5 Sonnet or any other Anthropic model.
If you have questions, email me at hackernews@mike.nahasmail.com. — Mike
I met a group of peopled who claimed to be time travelers once. They were homeless, and I was a bored teen. Anyway, they claimed they miscalculated the destination, ended up out in the ocean and it sank to the bottom while they swam to shore.

Sounded like a load of rubbish to me, but they did seem pissed about this while venting to me over a beer. So, if you do happen to time travel, please remember this story and plan accordingly.
Japan ranked 31st in digital competitiveness, 92nd for English skills
Right, that makes sense. But why would you mention your state’s tree anywhere, and why specifically in your robots.txt? Seems pretty random.
> The 2000s Internet felt way more innovative than the one we have today

Because it seems like this stuff is taught in Management 101 in all of the business schools: once you establish yourself with all this talk about "openness", etc. then the only way to succeed is by creating a walled garden, either through abuse of your monopoly position or by regulatory capture.

Cases in point: OpenAI _and_ Anthropic both pushing for regulation of AI, now that they have a dominant position.

I swear, the moment MBAs get involved, they try the same crap everywhere.
I’m commenting on the general attitude the west has toward Chinese tech. But I cannot delete that comment now.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach him to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Ban fish and the man gets into farming and animal husbandry and doesn't need you anymore.
> I loved Twitter. It was this magic place where I could connect with both friends and legends in my field (programmers). That’s not what it is anymore and it’s impossible to ignore how political it’s become.

It is a program. What has become political is society. Bluesky and Twitter are just the two sides of the fracture manifesting as online discussion spaces. Bluesky users are just as polarized as Twitter users, but perhaps more in line with what you’re comfortable with reading.
Pretty sure people I remember similar conversations happening when people decided to produce content for YouTube full time, lean into Node.js as a dev stack, or build iOS apps.

Make hay while the sun shines, friends. It might not last forever, but neither will you!
Wait this isn't true is it?
In the US, if you donate and later need a kidney yourself, they you will be put on the front of the transplant list. I believe it also applies if your family member needs a kidney also but I not certain.

> If you donate at a transplant center that partners with the National Kidney Registry and for any reason, need a kidney after donation, you will be given priority for a living don

https://www.kidney.org/transplantation/what-to-expect-after-...

Also its common that family members cannot be a compatible donor. For example I'm type O blood and all my living family members were not type O or had other health issues that would disqualify them. And kidney transplant chains are another thing. Each recipient has a donor that is not a direct match but will donate to someone else when their recipient gets a match. And a non-directed donor usually starts off the chain.

https://stanfordhealthcare.org/medical-treatments/k/kidney-t...
For years I've kept a list of apps / ideas / products I may do someday. I never made the time, with Cursor AI I have already built one, and am working on another. It's enabling me to use frameworks I barely know, like React Native, Swift, etc..

The first prompt (with o1) will get you 60% there, but then you have a different workflow. The prompts can get to a local minimum, where claude/gpt4/etc.. just can't do any better. At which point you need to climb back out and try a different approach.

I recommend git branches to keep track of this. Keep a good working copy in main, and anytime you want to add a feature, make a branch. If you get it almost there, make another branch in case it goes sideways. The biggest issue with developing like this is that you are not a coder anymore; you are a puppet master of a very smart and sometimes totally confused brain.
> How would you even dimension your HVAC if you don't know the numbers?

Well the people setting up the HVAC definitely ran the numbers accounting for windows, insulation, etc. The resulting system does successfully heat/cool the house.

What I'm a little unclear on is whether it was always expected to use this much power in the process. I've been struggling to get info out of my HVAC contractor, may need to hire someone else to come in and look at it.
I think it's a cool book for students.

But for real world programming, the tedious ones is related to validation, parsing and other business logic.

So i prefer a book to help teach CS by using real world codebase to solve real world everyday problem as a software engineer instead.

You can have your cake and eat it.
If you can even get them. On some older cars with this technology, replacement keys are simply not available any longer. I agree it would be really nice to be able to (legally) disable the security for cars that are pretty much fully depreciated.
This has been very helpful to know, and I'm going to try out this intermittent fasting scheme.

Question: do you have any system or hack for keeping track of whether it's a < 4pm or > 4pm day? If you do, please share. I have a habit of mindless eating, and will likely not remember to avoid eating at my prescribed times.
https://web.archive.org/web/20160530160330/https://www.googl...
I don’t click on HN articles expecting to cry, but here we are.
I haven't, but you can compare editions with this SICP Comparison Edition:

https://sicp.sourceacademy.org/
LLM Garak

Elim Garak

That's some good software naming punning right there
AI Copyright Claimed My Last Video
After 50x? I use GPS too, but I definitely learn the route after a few times with it. There are probably a class of people who don’t ever learn it, but I feel like this has to be a minority.
alternative take: everything is just sets

both can be a foundation for mathematics, and hence, a foundation for everything

what's interesting is how each choice affects what logic even means?
Electrical usage will go to the highest bidder. If Amazon can stomach more $ kw/hr than a homeowner, prices simply rise and CO2 increases, not that LLMs simply don’t get trained. You need to understand how things work in the real world, not in an imagined socialist utopia.
It was also a very simple way of making people save money for retirement: the bank would require you to slowly pay off the loan, so in the end, at least you'd own a house. In a world gaining population, you also have a speculative aspect, but it was a good idea even without that. At least it protected the real value of your savings.

With laxing repayment requirements, volatile markets, and easier access to other investment types, times have changed. If you know where you want to live, it's still an easy way to save money, but a stock market index fund is equally simple to use.
The ISP hypothesis doesn't make sense to me. I could not stream the live event from Netflix. But I could watch any other show on netflix or youtube or hulu at the same time.
The main problem with tape storage at small scales (including home use) has always been that tape drives are relatively expensive (several thousand dollars new), and buying just one makes it a single point of failure for your backup system. If your data set can fit on one or two dozen hard drives, then hard drives are the cheaper option (unless you keep them powered up and spinning 24/7).
That's like teaching physics via car repair. You'll learn a few ideas, but not much of the science.

It's practical and productive and profitable, which is great, but not really the original goal.
Claude has worked amazingly well for me as somebody really not into UI/web development.

There are so many small tasks that I could, but until now almost never would automate (whether it's not worth the time [1] or I just couldn't bring myself to do it as I don't really enjoy doing it). A one-off bitmask parser at work here, a proof of concept webapp at home there – it's literally opened up a new world of quality-of-life improvements, in a purely quantitative sense.

It extends beyond UI and web development too: Very often I find myself thinking that there must be a smarter way to use CLI tools like jq, zsh etc., but considering how rarely I use them and that I do already know an ineffective way of getting what I need, up until now I couldn't justify spending the hours of going through documentation on the moderately high chance of finding a few useful nuggets letting me shave off a minute here and there every month.

The same applies to SQL: After plateauing for several years (I get by just fine for my relatively narrow debugging and occasional data migration needs), LLMs have been much better at exposing me to new and useful patterns than dry and extensive documentation. (There are technical documents I really do enjoy reading, but SQL dialect specifications, often without any practical motivation as to when to use a given construct, are really not it.)

LLMs have generally been great at that, but being able to immediately run what they suggest in-browser is where Claude currently has the edge for me. (ChatGPT Plus can apparently evaluate Python, but that's server-side only and accordingly doesn't really allow interactive use cases.)

[1] https://xkcd.com/1205/
> Most undergrad CS students want a practical/engineering curriculum.

If all someone wants is the practical benefits of programming and has no interest in the underlying theory, they shouldn't waste their their time and money on a CS degree. All the practical information is available for free or at very low cost.
A survey of CTOs: how flat should your organization be?
But I have no idea why someone might want an LLM to act like a nazi. People read mein kampf in order to study the psychology of a madman and such.
This idea adds a fast SSD cache to a slow access bulk archive.

Obviously that cache can massively accelerate repeated access to the same data, and reduce tape wear and mechanical wear and energy usage.

But I think the critical issue is where you want the cache to be. Because end point devices already have local cache.

So this product only seems to have a big advantage on applications where you expect many unique users to access the same archive data for the first time, and within a short period of time before it expires from the tape drive’s SSD cache.

This is why I think it’s a small niche. Maybe too small to be worthwhile.

Edit: it also has the disadvantage that the first few devices to try to access the data would have a huge delay for a minute or more while the data is located on the tape. It’s also vulnerable to DDOS by attackers requesting random cold data, to fill the SSD.
yeah just push to prod and see what happens, understanding the problem is for nerds
> When does it make sense to use tape backup at home?

Never. Tape only makes sense
for true cold storage-ie. business-critical backups that are only going to be read back in case of emergency, where a couple days to retrieve the data is an acceptable compromise. "Movies I don't watch very often" are not 'cold' enough- it's just not worth the hassle of switching tapes and maintaining the entirely different infrastructure for even finding the right tape and reading the data. And while the price of the media is attractive, even second hand drives are prohibitively expensive and packed with moving parts to break down. If you really have a use case for offline backups at home BD-R is much more accessible (and I did look into this recently for the same use-case; unfortunately optical disk robots are still out of the reach of enthusiasts too. Could be a cool DIY project though...)
Every time I see claims like this, I instinctively click on the user's profile and try to verify if their story checks out.

>I played around a lot with code when I was younger. I built my first site when I was 13 and had a good handle on Javascript back when jQuery was still a pipe dream.

>Started with the Codecademy Ruby track which was pretty easy. Working through RailsTutorial right now.

posted on April 15, 2015, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9382537

>I've been freelancing since I was 17. I've dabbled in every kind of online trade imaginable, from domain names to crypto. I've built and sold multiple websites. I also built and sold a small agency.

>I can do some marketing, some coding, some design, some sales, but I'm not particularly good at any of those in isolation.

posted on Jan 20, 2023, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34459482

So I don't really understand where this claim of only "6 months of coding experience" is coming from, when you clearly have been coding on and off for multiple decades.
Metallica - Seattle 1989
Maybe if the patent was revoked instead of cancelled it has different legal implications for that procedure
Here's what all these "AI is coming for yer jerb" articles miss.

Employing juniors allow for somebody down the line to take the blame. Everybody is somebody's direct report, and shit doesn't roll uphill. As a 1970s IBM presentation slide once said: "A computer can never be held accountable, so a computer must never make a management decision".

That aside, I'm not particularly convinced by the findings of a "research study" about the usefulness of shovels when its produced by Shovels.com, especially when they're not willing to dogfood their own software on internal use cases such as legal brief reviews.
The analogy needs something about IP theft of automated fishing pole designs
I think the way people buy homes here in America is no different than the way we consume other goods. Two things matter above all else in the decision process: 1. What other people think of us(although we refuse to admit it) and 2. indulgent, first world, luxurious comfort.
I am routinely blinded by the LED headlights on modern cars. They are too white, too bright, and too small (forming a pinpoint bright light which creates terrible glare). They also don't seem to be aimed at the road but straight ahead. You can tell at a glance which cars are older and still have halogen bulb headlights because they are a bit yellow in color and don't create nearly as much glare. I don't know how these newer headlight systems were permitted. They are probably great for the driver but not for any oncoming traffic.