skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's some weird ligature, on that font...

I don't think that the issue is with "best practices," or any other type of dogma.

I think the main issue, is that companies tend to hire folks that aren't especially skilled at what they do, and rely on excessive structure, to compensate, or that they don't stay around, long enough, to get comfortable with the structure.

This can apply to both newer folks, who don't understand the system well enough to effectively deviate, and ones with a lot of experience, who have allowed themselves to get so hidebound, they are afraid to deviate.

As I have gotten older, wiser, and more battle-scarred (often, from self-inflicted injuries), I have learned that "It Depends™" is the only true mantra for my work.

Usually, best practices/dogma/structure becomes important, when the codebase is being worked on by a team, and when there's the need to coordinate work between teams.

There's some type of work that just can't be done, without structure. I've done that type of work. Other work can be killed by too much structure. I've done that kind of work, as well.
Bidets can actually reduce water usage overall, depending on how much less toilet paper is used. Then of course there's the benefit of needing fewer materials to produce toilet paper.
This is a convenience bias, with whatever narrative best fits.

Either it's "Apple releases after everyone else, but gets it right", when that doesn't work, like now, it's "Oh, it's understood to be less than perfect, but will be getting better.

And Apple Maps was in part, released because Apple didn't want Google getting user data (I don't like calling it "their user's data" because that implies those users are owned by Apple). So they released a terrible experience for their own benefit - while continuing the narrative of "we're the only ones who care about your experience".
Cybersec: Homemade DDoS – Development and Infiltration
They claim it's a project by these people, who are YC-backed: https://www.taiki.ai/
It provides a valuable path to outside perspective? Generally you would expect some credentials and vetting in what opinion you post. But the idea seems fine? Good, even.
I'd love to claim the pun was intended! :)
> 3. Hypothetical answer generation from a query using an LLM, and then using that hypothetical answer to query for embeddings works really well.

I've been wondering about that and am glad to hear it's working in the wild.

I'm now wondering if using a fine-tuned LLM (on the corpus) to gen the hypothetical answers and then use those for the rag flow would work even better.
A bit tangential, but I've been working on this API that supports WhatsApp groups that may be useful for capturing the chats to be moderated.

[1] https://developers.2chat.co/docs/category/groups
Disney CEO Bob Iger Accidentally Reveals Disney+ Ad-Supported Subscriber Details
Except if you logon to gmail it automatically logs you in the browser.
This must be part of the problem. People complain about them here (in the US) all the time. I'm wondering if we're not producing crappy dual flush toilets in this country compared to overseas where they've presumably be manufacturing them for a generation or so.
Probably because opinions are interesting to most people and people who read pop sci magazines want to read opinions that have more of a science/evidence bent then what they can get out of other magazines and/or newspapers.
show me a writer that hasn't been trained on a lot of movie plots before them.
OpenAlex is a really good here too, including their API. They’re also the inheritors of the Microsoft Academic Graph, fully open source and open data:

https://openalex.org
It'll screw up UI tests
> I would not be surprised to find out that this is a couple recent college grads who don’t realize what this business entails.

It's made by Y-combinator backed startup Taiki. The cofounders (who have names similar to the ones that made commits in the git repo) seem to be pretty experienced (Alibaba, and Amazon)[0]

[0] https://www.taiki.ai/about-us
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Congrats! What a great solution, wish you success.
NIT: The forced smooth scrolling on the landing page drives me crazy! haha
I imagine the Germans didn't leave them in a mass grave and burn the entire village down in 1943. That's the reality for a whole bunch of people and the International Tracing Service only did so much.
No, the antithesis of the scientific spirit is to believe anything joe nobody posts on facebook or twitter that fits your worldview, regardless of (or perhaps especially due to) the presence of contradictory facts.

The essence of science, and what is meant by "trust the science", is to accept theories that fit the existing data until such time as new data contradicts them, while encouraging people to ruthlessly search for just such data which would falsify them.

Sadly, there are a lot of people whose only standard of proof for conspiracy theories is that it contradicts what experts claim.
A mechanical shepherd, and one herd.
consumer benefit is not the end all of antitrust.
DOJ Will Push Google to Sell Chrome to Break Search Monopoly
I like it myself. If I have to use CAPTCHA that is, I can't stand it on principle!
This is legal. See Teller API. Venmo will most likely lose if they take these devs to court based on precedent.

I don't like this trend of small time OSS devs being berated about legal bullying from megacorps, meanwhile handsomely VC-funded businesses get congratulated with legal help. We should be berating these companies of not releasing the APIs that people want to use!

We're in an age of AI, built atop agents, agents built atop APIs. APIs were the promise of Web 2.0, a promise being ripped away from us more and more by the day by these megacorps.

There should be a SPECIFIC legal funds/OSS unions protecting these Adversarial Interoperability projects and their maintainers from legal threat harassment by megacorps.

Just in the last 2 years we've had multiple near/passed-trillion dollar companies sending legal threats to OSS devs who have to fight them off on their own - one of them 15 years old.

Thank you alanalanlu and richardyhz for this project. Godspeed! And screw Venmo if they dare go after these two maintainers and their project!
> Will they then see a net influx of people through immigration

Bhutan has very strict immigration laws. You basically need to be employed in a government scheme or make a huge investment in the local economy to immigrate.
What about a fly.io container?
I think when someone say something you are confused or have doubts about what they mean, then you ask them what they mean. This sentence can be used to mean many things (including mocking up scientists ot trolling). So please next time you see or hear someone says that please ask them that.

If I would use it personally I will probably use it to mean trust the evidence based knowledge that the scientific community is using.
It's true, "sure" and "shore" are not pronounced exactly the same, and accents absolutely can vary, which is part of why Beider-Morse produces multiple encodings for each word. But the goal of Soundex-style phonetic encoding systems isn't to perfectly encode a word with a precise alphabet like the IPA. Rather, they intentionally introduce fuzziness so that words (really, names) that are pronounced similarly will be encoded the same way.

Perhaps "sure" and "shore" was a bad example; it's tricky to come up with these! And you're right that the encodings that happen to overlap for those words are technically "incorrect" pronunciations; again, these Soundex-style encoders are designed for surnames, not general English words. Some Storyteller users are testing out a version of Storyteller using this encoder to see if it makes any improvements (so far it seems like it's not worse, but not necessarily better!), but I won't be surprised if it doesn't end up making it into Storyteller long term.

Mostly I wrote this piece not to advocate for using BMPM to support forced alignment, but as a way to express the emotional journey that I found myself on as I learned more about these systems and where they came from.
I'm not following. You're saying people who spread fecal matter on their phones don't wash it off their phones? That seems hard to believe, if for no other reason that the smell would be repulsive.
Dupe (279 points, 3 hours ago, 310 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42177767
Lol and the blockchain NFTs were encoded urls because a compressed image is too heavy for the chain, but millions of DNA samples, logged into perpetuity. I don’t see how the original comment provides a sincere evaluation of the goodness of fit for that played out solution.

Then what about running the wood genetic sequencing labs in source countries. Explain how these developing countries are going to undertake a DNA based quality system for a highly fungible commodity so we can feel good about wood flooring.
I was thinking about how we can predict the location of planets with a high degree of accuracy. They are pretty close to an ideal physical system and is governed by a single physical law. The dynamics are so well understood that we have been able to predict the existence of, and find, other planets based on small deviations. We have even been able to refine our understanding of the structure of planets, even of gravity itself, based upon small deviations.

That said, it certainly includes our ability to use gravity assists when planning a mission.
I Appreciate you taking the time to properly respond.

>large secondary indexing services

We've talked about this before. The relay isn't secondary. proof of the matter is, bluesky last week went down because it was down.

>Anybody can run a relay or appview, same as anybody can run a PDS.

That's just saying anybody can fork the network if they're not happy. that's not very collaborative and social.

>When the software is sufficiently tested and implemented.

I would think this was a more pressing matter seeing your previous response.

>This remains true only so long as the network remains under a certain size, and your posts never go viral.

I think you're overestimating how taxing going "viral" is on an ActivityPub server. if one of your posts goes viral, it doesn't get hit for every follower you have. It'll only be a request per instance. Plus, task queues exist. Yes going viral is taxing on a server. it doesn't mean the solution is just to offload that burden to some centralized server.

>We're keeping the most valuable part of the system -- account ownership -- from having its costs bundled with application ops.

Except the tradeoff is relying on a handful of large organization that have the resources to burden the cost of running a network. Those networks then decide who gets to post or not. account ownership isn't worth much if you can't speak anywhere. If I were to get banned from the bsky relay, I'd be essentially barred from interacting with anyone on the ATmosphere until someone else came along and created a new relay or appview. On activitypub, maybe mastodon.social doesn't like what I say so they ban my instance. But at least I can still interact with the thousand of other instances that exist. Now you can say, don't be an ass and you won't get banned, and I agree. But when you've created a system where only large organizations have the capacity to run a network, Maybe now I get banned because Coca-Cola decided they didn't want anyone saying Pepsi tasted better on their network.

>In fact, I would argue that binding user accounts to individual application instances & their governance like AP does is a massive mistake.

I think we'll agree to disagree on this one.

As always Appreciate the debates pfraze, hopefully these conversation help users decide which platform they like the best.
That's why I swallow a pinch of cobalt-60 every day, to make sure my DNA is unrecognizable to adversaries.
VDOM would still exist if the DOM was faster. It's a different abstraction that reconciles the differences between the simple data->elements flow and the inherently stateful DOM. If you don't understand why VDOM exists, here's a nice experiment: in your next web app stop using VDOM and always set innerHTML. You'll find that (1) it's actually fast enough so you can conclude that VDOM doesn't exist just to patch over DOM slowness; (2) you are missing some features you get in VDOM.

The answer is that the DOM inherently has state. It could be a textbox's text input and its cursor state, or the focus state, or whatever. But developers don't want to think about this DOM-managed state to simplify their mental model.
What fourth movie?
Oh dude you’re right, for some reason I thought this was a sequel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_4_Blood
Maybe the problem is the word Best. Perhaps Standard Practice is better — suggests "the usual way we do things" without presuming it is the best and only way to do things.
There’s little to no authentication on filing flight plans which makes this a potentially bigger problem. I’m sure it’s fixed but the mechanism that caused the failure is an assertion that fails by disconnecting the critical systems entirely for “safety”. And the backup failed the same way. Bet there are similar bugs.
> There are finite resources, true. So keep the tickets open. Eventually someone will fix them.

Realistically, no, they won't. If the rate of new P0-P2 bugs is higher than the rate of fixing being done, then the P3 bugs will never be fixed. Certainly by the time someone gets around to trying to fix the bug, the ticket will be far enough out of date that that person will not be able to trust it. There is zero value in keeping the ticket around.

> Anything else is supporting a lie.

Now who's prioritising "spurious psychological reasons" over the things that actually matter? Closing the ticket as wontfix isn't denying that the bug exists, it's acknowledging that the bug won't be fixed. Which is much less of a lie than leaving it open.
Because it will perform similarly to the way that writing LLMs do…. They obey and produce singularly predictable and droll stories that have trouble keeping the attention of a five year old. It’s the definition of stale tropes and predictable scenes at its worst.

It has no idea of the mind of the viewer or the reader. It’s literally generating the most probable next few words to tack on to the story.

LLMs are great for a lot of stuff, but they are by design not at all creative in any admirable sense of the term. They cannot produce a narrative that is simultaneously unique or genuinely surprising without it also being nonsensical.

Hallucinations are not a bug, they are a result of proper operation , just undesirable. The same thing that makes nonsensical“hallucinations “ if the “temperature” is set too high is what prevents llms from having any unique ideas if the temperature is set low enough to not hallucinate wildly.

LLMs are text prediction engines. Extremely useful and revolutionary in many ways, but not in creative work. Everything they do is by definition derivative and likely.

What graphics models do in images is no different, it’s not all that creative, and works much better when you -tell it- to be derivative. It’s just that the nature of graphic representation is mainly predictable and derivable… so it doesn’t bore us when it produces derivative, predictable work.
> NATO will 100% not be the first to declare war despite even very serious provocations.

But if it doesn't declare war, it now looks weak. That article 5 isn't worth very much all of the sudden. At the same time it's stupid to start WW3 over a village in the Baltics, a town in Romania, a cut cable or a few blown up warehouses. The Russians took the same "red line" idea and are playing it against the NATO and the EU. I can't interpret as any other way. And on one level, it sort of works.

> Maybe they'll take a leaf out of Russia or Israel's book and declare a 'special' or 'limited' operation though...

I'd like to believe. But remembering how much hand wringing was needed to send a few tanks to Ukraine and some F-16. Somehow, I doubt they'll be able to do anything as bold as a "special" military operation against Russia. Heck, they can't even provide air defense for Ukraine's skies. (As in use NATO's own defense systems to stop the Russians destroying apartment buildings). That's the point the Russians are providing. They are destroying NATO's reputation without even trying to too much, and I posit, so far it works.
I dislike how 99% of cars make you look down so far. Looking to the side as well isn't an issue, especially when my gaze is scanning my mirrors.

By comparison, my older Prius has the speedometer at the base of the windshield super close to the road. It's simply better.

I haven't tried a heads-up display, though.
Huh, TIL. I guess we weren't representative of the whole then.
That would be in the busiest shipping ports, channels, and anchorages in the entire world. Aka the most bananas place to interdict.
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It's especially hard for embedded software. You certainly do want hardware-in-the-loop tests, but you also want tests that are independent of the hardware. You have to simulate the hardware interaction, and you definitely want to verify what the code tried to do to the hardware, and when. So for the hardware-interacting layer you want mocks, not just fakes.
> we want to turn off the animation and move the focus to the first link in the menu instead of focussing on the menu's parent

Why not just always turn off the animations? Why not just always move the focus to the link?

What is the benefit of the animation to the user? What is the benefit of focusing on the menu’s parent to the user?

One rule of thumb with accessibility is that accessible products are usually better for everyone.
Wasn't there an paper on band limiting generative CNNs, that fixed texture pinning? Basically by blurring the results of the kernel with neighbors, you get rid of all this aliasing?
Yeah interesting, but not really any different than the original content. Maybe a little easier to grok.

I was looking for algorithms to extract out a QR code from an image.
Might want to grow the audience?
Oh, hello, I didn't realize this was shared here! I guess let me know if anyone has any questions. I mostly wrote this piece as part of processing some hard feelings I've been having and seeing shared among Jewish folks around me, but I also ended up learning quite a bit about phonetic encoding algorithms, and I've spent several years at this point steeped in forced alignment via Storyteller.
But then when somebody else has the issue they make a new bug and any data/investigation from the old one is basically lost.

Like what's wrong with having 1000 open bugs?
BEAM very much falls into the same camp as the author's description of Scratch does at the beginning of the article. You have a lot more granular control than Scratch, of course, but it also loosely follows the actor model
apparently? i guess it was to do with the ADL a little while ago getting upset because there was a bunch of Pepe the Frog pics. and Nazi imagery (much of which is from ww2 themed games, what do you know wolfenstien has swastikas)
> Maybe the Australians wouldn't allow that?

I think the US leases bases in Australia. Given that a single aircraft carrier group contains more power than the ADF combined I would suggest any that limp back to Australia's shores would be able to continue using these ports.
Yes I'm sure the valuable data has been safely deleted and definitely not sold to data brokers, insurance companies or government agencies.
I think they know how to search and replace.
I would have a privacy concern with it, and then your going to force everyone to do verification. Age verification isn't even passed here in the US, although a lot of companies do it. They wanted to make it law over the last couple years.
X remains the central hub where most of the action takes place. I believe that if it were to disappear, it would eventually be replaced. For now, however, it continues to be a gathering place for many people, including media representatives and individuals from various governments. It is simply the most centralized location for everyone to connect.

Bluesky may have potential, but it operates on a different model that makes collaboration more challenging, and not everyone can easily access or view others' posts. Unfortunately, X is not going to be replaced by Bluesky anytime soon.

What surprises me the most is that Musk has transformed what was once a successful platform into a struggling one. I understand that he had to cut a lot of staff to reduce expenses. But, he has positioned himself as the central figure for criticism. He didn’t have to do that, which is very strange. I suppose ego gets in the way.
Skill issue? Should've used viewport, not screen coordinates (read with .clientX and .clientY). I don't see why negative values in screen space is a bug.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSSOM_view/...
I desperately wish they'd give me the option to pay for Firefox Sync. I would, genuinely, pay for that every month. I get a massive amount of value from being able to throw tabs from my laptop to my phone and vice versa, and have everything synchronized, in a way I trust.
Except you can't. Every browser on iOS uses Safari's rendering engine. Chrome/Firefox on iOS are effectively reskinned Safari. This is an apple requirement. The rendering engine being the important part here when talking about standards and such.
Sort of? Mozilla is not doing well. Further, the only reason Google is paying Mozilla is to keep a notional third-party competitor alive; search traffic from a sub-3% browser is not worth that much. If the Chrome deal goes through, there's really no business reason for Google to keep paying them.
Western countries have intelligence services with sabotage departments and in general are not above blowing up things their leaders don't like.

If the CIA or US Navy don't have the technical means to blow up the Crimea bridge with plausible deniability they haven't been paying attention.
> I trust that most research is done in good faith and at least some of it is useful. Saying 'Trust the science' might as well be saying 'Trust in God'

Hopefully this is hyperbole. Any faith I have is separate from, for example, if I cancer, I am going to trust the science on the next steps of treatment.
I honestly can’t imagine why someone would downvote that lol.

Sdio is exactly the kind of interface that one would use for hidden backdoors, since you need a very special piece of hardware to deliver the payload.

No one will ever discover that there are undocumented features that can be accessed by a nonstandard sdio device with just the right mis-timings… because the only thing ever going in that a lot is a memory card that is incapable of producing that signal.

At least until now lol.
OK, interesting, so there is some dogfooding, but it's not complete.
To say they didn't lack in technology is just crazy. By the late 18th century early 19th century around the time of the first opium war, the technological differences was quite sound, such that militarily there was no way China cannons e.g. matched anything the West had, allowing UK's navy to bombard China from practically anywhere without any consequences. In fact even into the early 20th century, during the siege of Xi'an during the 1930s, they were still using ladders, etc. to try the breach the walls like they were doing a millennium ago.
Trump's pick to run the FCC has told us what he plans
The Surprising Effectiveness of Test-Time Training for Abstract Reasoning
You submitted popshort.ai 18 hours ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42170553

Discussed it 23 hours ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42169251 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42169193

And have done nothing else
Sure we do. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/11/11/...