skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you sharing your process anywhere (like on YouTube)? I’d be really curious to see behind the scenes of how you’re building these types of products. For example, are you just using Claude or Claude with Cursor (or something else)?
even for enthusiasts, to go from no programming experience to understanding how Netflix handles video streaming at scale would take more than 5 years.
I think you mean the last entry on the readme[1], as the last entry in the FAQ is about the meaning of pass/fail in the score

1: https://github.com/NVIDIA/garak/blob/d8bd12ea969eec377326241...
Why YouTube Sponsors Are Almost Always Terrible
Exactly. This is the only ethical thing.
The alternative, renting, has no chance at generating equity. People have to live somewhere. One option does have a high probability of increasing a family’s wealth over the long term. The other has zero probability of doing so. This article carefully prunes the premises so as to lead to an inevitable conclusion. Feels like intellectual dishonesty.
There's a reason Telegram bots are so popular. Whatsapp API can become quite pricey. And all the hoops you have to jump through just to get API access, it's ridiculous.

Test and perfect on Telegram. Deploy to Whatsapp when you are ready to open your wallet.
While I think (as others say) we should not police op's time, I would like to know what is the reasoning the used when choosing between focusing and not having all your eggs in one basket.

I think arguments by people making these choices would be very educational to me (as a person with a bit of a scatterd brain).
One nice thing about CF's robots.txt is its inclusion of a sitemap:

https://www.cloudflare.com/sitemap.xml

which contains links to educational materials like

https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/ddos/layer-3-ddos-attack...

Potentially interesting to see their flattened IA....
How are you squeezing the market when your stats say 2Ms(minutes) seek time. If to becomes popular WD can easily copy that tech.
This seems to step into control theory, which I think is somewhat underapplied in software engineering.
It quite reminds me of Richard Stallman's reply on an email list asking people to refrain from posting about the birth of a baby on a technical mailing list.

http://www.art.net/studios/hackers/hopkins/Don/text/rms-vs-d...
It has to cost more than tape alone with the flash media sitting in front of it.
I've always wondered why we can't build devices that process blood sugar into electricity to power themselves. Or blood pressure/flow itself.
There isn't an active maintainer any more, I'm afraid. And Apple placed restrictions on modifying memory that contains instructions that prevented techniques the compiler relies upon for fast allocation of closures. There are ideas for workarounds, but they would require a lot of work.

I'm a huge fan of MIT Scheme, and have used it since 1984, but I would recommend using another implementation these days, especially on Mac.

See Scheme.org.
isn't that what declarative programming frameworks do already ?
LLMs are wrong for most things imo. LLMs are great conversational assistants, but there is very little linguistic rigor to them, if any. They have almost no generalization ability, and anecdotally they fall for the same syntactic pitfalls they've fallen for since BERT. Models have gotten so good at predicting this n-dimensional "function" that sounds like human speech, we're getting distracted from seeing their actual purpose and trying to apply them to all sorts of problems that rely on more than text-based training data.

Language is cool and immensely useful. LLMs, however, are fundamentally flawed from their basic assumptions about how language works. The distribution hypothesis is good for paraphrasing and summarization, but pretty atrocious for real reasoning. The concept of an idea living in a semantic "space" is incompatible with simple vector spaces, and we are starting to see this actually matter in minutia with scaling laws coming into play. Chip design is a great example of where we cannot rely on language alone to solve all our problems.

I hope to be proven wrong, but still not sold on AGI being within reach. We'll probably need some pretty significant advancements in large quantitative models, multi-modal models and smaller, composable models of all types before we see AGI
This is great. I’ve been looking for more local multistage storage: with fast frequent access degrading to slow large capacity. In the future with large volumes I can store the text of the Internet for a personal archive.
How a decades-old unsolved murder case changed the way we consume medicine
Best of luck to you. Courage is in short supply.
Can highly recommend outline (https://www.getoutline.com/). You can self-host or opt for the hosted version. Built and maintained by one of the linear devs.
Have a look into Passivhaus principles.

In your case I'm surprised that a new build did not have all the heating/cooling aspects calculated. How would you even dimension your HVAC if you don't know the numbers?

There are easy and not so easy solutions:

1. heat recovery ventilation - equalizes the incoming and outgoing ventilation air temperature so you don't have to heat or cool the inside as much but still get a lot of fresh and filtered air.

2. solar shades positioned in a way that shades the sun when it's high i.e. summer time but lets sun in when it's low during the winter.

3. proper insulation and air-tightness .. a hard sell for a house that just came online.

4. ground loop heat-pumps instead of air source.

Other than that I like your house, especially fond of the integrated catwalks/doors!
"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway."

For big data transfers, this still holds true.
Because LLMs such as Gemini -- and other causal language models more broadly -- are trained on next token prediction, the vectors that you get from pooling the output token embeddings aren't that useful for RAG or semantic search compared to what you get from actual embedding models.

One distinction to make here is that token embeddings and the embeddings/vectors that are output from embedding models are related but separate concepts. There are numerous token embeddings (one per token) which become contextualized as they propagate through the transformer, while there is a single vector/embedding that is output by embedding models (one per input data, such as long text, photo, or document screenshot).
One thing might be that you can build an SPA into a mobile app, which maybe would have a harder time passing review with app stores if half the code is running somewhere else? Having said that, of course backends do already exist, but I wonder if it might be viewed slightly differently.
Dependent Type Checker in Python
the current system just allows people who understand the system and prep to beat the exam to succeed instead. yet you still find the phonies get through, so is it really solving the original problem then?

outside the geography where the salaries are an order of magnitude less, we yet go through the pain because of companies copying each other's approach.
https://www.mailcoach.app/ Mailcoach by Spatie (who work on a lot of really good Laravel open source stuff) seems decent at this. You can either pay for a self-hosted license, or use their cloud.
A few years ago, I was a frequent visitor to a public swimming pool, same day, same time. Apparently with similar swimming habits, there was an elderly person who was humming all the time. In the pool, in the shower, in the lobby, rather loud but not too much. I initially attributed it to elderly quirkiness. It was only after several encounters that I realized he was blind. The point is, I only figured that out when I saw him with a white cane outside, not at all by the way he moved inside or used the objects - he was navigating the space just like anyone else, and it was a rather crowded place. That was the day I learned that echolocation in humans is a thing.
WFH is different for everyone. I used to walk to the subway, stand/pace around the platform waiting, walk from the subway to work, walk to lunch, walk to errands on the way home. Now I drive constantly around the suburbs.

People will naturally do that 5 days a week working in a city, there's no "well just go take a walk" handwaving.
they are if that's the only way you know how to create something
When Chinese implements an existing feature: stealing. When WD implements an existing feature: innovation
If you do not respect the sign I shall be very cross with you. Very cross indeed. Perhaps I shall have to glare at you, yes, very hard. I think I shall glare at you. Perhaps if you are truly irritating I shall be forced to remove you from the premises for a bit.
How Vimmy Is Your Vim Mode?
I was in a programming interview the other day where the interviewers and I were sharing an online
code pad (either CoderPad or CodeSignal) that offered a "Vim mode", but when I tried to use a Vim
feature, it didn't behave as I expected! Driven by curiosity, I took a deep dive into what Vim
features are offered on what sites.

Overall the story is really impressive for most of these sites! I also tried out a couple of IDEs
(PyCharm CE and VS Code, both with their Vim plugins set up) and they also performed well overall.
But isn't free speech is when" others are forced to listen to me* without me seeing their trash takes? /s
easy guess that length breaks some legacy stuff

but every robots.txt should have a auto-ban trap line

ie. crawl it and die

basically a script that puts the requesting IP into firewall

of course it's possible to abuse that so it has to be monitored
Authentication options are very limited with docmost, compared to other offerings. There is only one. Locally stored credentials.
Isn't it enough already that the poster has taken the time and trouble to post a bypass without having to additionally specify that that is what it is? Sheesh!
Oh! Alas the apparent syntax similarity is misleading. If you prefer imagine I wrote "C-like language" anywhere that I wrote "semi-colon language". It's not really about the semi-colon, indeed the semi-colon isn't even doing the same thing and that's a clue†. You see, the typical semi-colon languages you'll have used such as C++ or Java have these "everything is a machine integer" type systems which were a small step up from the "Who needs a type system" of their predecessors but aren't anywhere close to what you'd expect in an ML or a functional language.

So this means there's a substantial learning curve, or, if you try to just keep writing C++ even though you're in Rust, an impedance mismatch. It looks superficially like the thing you're used to, but that's not what it is.

† In Rust the semi-colon is turning your expression into a statement, but in the semi-colon languages it's a separator, everything is a statement anyway. So while a rust program might say let x = if k > 3 { plenty(k) } else { too_few() }; in the semi-colon languages there's a whole separate ternary operator provided to do this trick - in fact they don't have any other ternary operators and so they often call this "the" ternary operator which is very funny if you come from a language which has the multiply-accumulate operator...
A bucket brigade delay obtains a sample of a voltage on one end, and then shifts copy of that charge among the cells to the other end. The delay line as a whole contains a window of samples at any point, but that window is such is not accessed.

A CCD line obtains a window of samples directly: the cells are charged according to light sensors. Then this window of samples is shifted out in the same way as a bucket brigade delay line.

So the main differences are that the bucket brigade is clocked continuously, running nonstop and that only one of the cells obtains the sample.

The CCD runs only briefly after an image has been exposed and capture has been triggered, in order to shift out the samples, and sampling takes place at every cell.

A bucket brigade can be slowed down or sped up to change the delay. That affects the sampling rate and therefore frequency resolution. That's how we can create a chorus effect for musical instruments. So the clock speed is a direct functional parameter. Slowing down or speeding up the CCD doesn't make a difference to the result, except that there's likely an ideal range of rates, balancing between the time needed to accurately charge one cell to be equal to its neighbor, while being fast enough to avoid leakage.
Rock and Stone OP!!!
Of course

Source software is the way to go (compiled specifically for one version of thé targeted OS, you sont have many issue)

Distribution opaque binaries are indeed not the best way, even if you can do it easily with static linking
How do you discern a crawler agent and a human? Is it easily as the fact that they might cover something like 80%+ of the site in one visit fairly quickly?
Rock and Stone!!
Same. For me it was 15 years ago, but was with Prof. Brian Harvey in Pimentel hall with the rotating stage.

Nice memories.

I fell in love with scheme eventually as it was such a simple syntax. Getting used to parentheses did take some time though.
3) the people supplying 1) and 2) with tools (hard- or software)

We (yep) don't know the exact details, but we do get sent snapshots of full configs and deployments to debug things... we might not see exact load patterns, but it's enough to know. And if course we can't tell due to NDAs.
For a pure cash sale. But IMO we could be exploring other incentives to donate that don’t have the same issues.
Huh, did they remove it from the normal subscription then? I've never had a team & enterprise plan.
Why Humans Cry
While the raw similarity score does matter, what typically matters more is the score relative to other documents. In the case of the examples in the notebook, those values were the highest in relative terms.

I can see why this may be unclear/confusing -- we will correct it. Thank you for the feedback!
https://archive.ph/UHLjz
Or a performant anything else, AFAICT
Home Assistant has Android Auto support. You can also buy a zigbee wireless switch and put it in your car, and configure homeassistant to open the door when that wireless switch is pressed.
To think, after all this time, after all the conversations, we still don't trust LLMs.

There's hope for us yet ;)
> Is PCR patented, or was it at some point?

Loud YES! And it only recently came off patent. This was really important for thermalcycler companies such as Bio-rad, which probably wouldn't be the name it is without those patents.
You should see what the Timex limited edition ring goes for now. I bet you can flip this Casio for a nice multiple as well.
Another incentive, at least in the US, could be to give them free healthcare for life.
Could OpenAI Crush Agentic AI Startups?
OpenAI is pushing the effort into coding agents, based on benchmarks they're trying to beat (SWE for writing the code / MLE for building ML models).

Your bet, will it be able to replace agentic startups like Devin/Bolt/Vo?
It's financially free at the time of action but most folks don't have the resources to do that. Time and space are both required and the people who need exercise are the ones least likely to have these criteria met.

Most people sit or stand at work for about 8-9 hours and have a little 30-45 minutes of commuting in each direction.

Our entire society is built upon car centric, work centric life and lifestyles. It's easy to blame the individual when you don't suffer the systemic issues that cause these things. A lot of us are fortunate to have flexibility in our hours or finances but this is a bubble.

In my case: If I want to go for a walk or a jog I have to do so on the road. There are no sidewalks within dozens of miles of my location. That leaves me to buy a gym membership and commute back and forth by car. I can't afford that financially at present so I don't.

If I had a safe way of moving more I would be more inclined. I go for walks as regularly as weather, climate, and time allow but they're often cut off by needing to keep my head on a swivel and risking being accosted by folks if I step into their lawns to get out of the way of a car that probably has a distracted driver.
Having debugged my share of autoconf setups..I assumed it had to be a new M4 and not the ancient quirky GNU M4 thing because no one in their right mind would wish M4 (and related GNU autoconfig / autconf) on any other sentient beings.

It’d be like saying - “hey, I’m starting a new project and trying to pick between ed, sed, or awk. Whatcha think”? Def not.
What you could improve:

- get the vocabulary for each CEFR level from a reliable source. "der Sir" is definitely not A1 German, it's only used for British knights, way too specific.

- accept all correct responses. English "just" can mean "a very short time ago," "only" or "fair," and each of these has more than one possible German translation.

- don't make the user choose their level, determine it automatically based on what they do and don't know.
There was a time when mathematicians wrote LISP programs and other humans translated them into machine instructions. Then one day someone wrote a LISP program to do this, and had one of the translators translate it.

A compiler was born.

Think of Claude as a compiler which compiles NLP text instructions into functional code.
The parent commenter never used or even implied “stealing” nor “innovation” anywhere in their comment. I dunno where you got your strawman from.
ELI5: I’ve lost track of tape storage technologies. When does it make sense to use tape backup at home? Most people rely on cloud services or external hard drives for backing up large files like family photos and videos. But is there a point—like a certain amount of data—where it becomes convenient to use tape instead?

On the surface, this might seem like a simple question, but let me elaborate with an example: think about storing unavailable movies on high-quality 2K/4K/8K content. Would tape backup be a good fit for this kind of use at home?
The most striking performance observation of my experience was that Apple took a system, OpenStep 4.2 which ran okay on a 33 MHz 68040 (and acceptably on my 25MHz Cube) and made it run only a little bit better on a 400MHz G3 as the Mac OS X Public Beta.

The difference of course was anti-aliasing, and much greater bit depth, and running multiple programming environments/toolkits (Carbon and Java).
And making sure you don’t accidentally violate a patent when you’re just going down the most obvious path
Also +1 for cromulent use of “cromulent”.
I'm not sure how you (and many others, judging by the downvotes) got the impression that OP should be shamed for not specifying what the list is for. I only said that "you should mention [...]". If you agree that adding an explainer is a net benefit (ie. help people understand what it's for), then I don't see why it's not something you "should" do.
When you walk do you do so on sidewalks?
The internet, was supposed to be like this. I used to perceive it like this in its early days. And then it got enshittified.
Could you please explain why? I'm trying to think how is it depressing and can't come up with anything.
The headline hasn't been changed since the 90's, because it hasn't needed to be changed.
We’ll see what the future holds but as an old timer, using LLMs to creat applications seems exactly the same as:

Python/JS and their ecosystem replacing OS hosted C/C++ which replaced bare metal Assembly which replaced digital logic which replaced analog circuits which replaced mechanical design as the “standard goto tool” for how to create programs.

Starting with punchcard looms and Ada Lovelace maybe.

In every case we trade resource efficiency and lower level understanding for developer velocity and raise the upper bound on system complexity, capability, and somehow performance (despite the wasted efficiency).
Is avoiding catastrophic costs not a compassionate reason? Why should someone not be eligible/worthy to avoid catastrophic costs? If someone is paying their premium (be it from a Medicare/Medicaid plan or from their tax dollars), why should they not be covered?

Should we also refuse to rescue people who went hiking in deep wilderness or boating in unsafe waters? Or negotiate the release of citizens taken prisoner by hostile foreign regimes or gotten seriously ill while vacationing against government advice? Since when is it good policy to refuse help to people who have made poor choices or taken risks?
That’s why no one reads articles, just headlines.
Agreed. LLMs can give you ideas on how to get there, but you still need foundational knowledge of the language or framework to extend the code it generates.
The fittest are by definition those who reproduce the most.

In our modern world, the "smartest" and "devious" are headed to a dead end with below replacement birth rates while the "dumb" rednecks and religious are set to eventually become the majority.
You only get resistance from other people when you have a good idea.
Persistence (Grit) is the key to success.
> with zero issues

depending on whom you ask, the bitrate used by the stream is significantly lower than what is considered acceptable from free livestreaming services, that albeit stream to much, much smaller audience.

without splitting hairs, livestreaming was never their forte, and going live with degradation elsewhere is not a great look for our distributed computing champ.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk ???
This is the proverbial standing on the shoulders of Giants, which we all do every day
That's true, but this is considerably more convenient than traditional tape. Tape as is requires specialty equipment and careful handling, if I understand the above product proposition correctly, it's just plug and play. Right now, only an enthusiast would use tape in their home setup, with this approach, anyone could use it for their backup server or w/e.
So basically I don’t have to exercise anymore?
I'm not an american, 200k/year is practically unheard of in the EU lol
"Has a realm of applicability" is what people mean by "wrong" here. As in, the equations we have don't fully generalize and explain all regimes. The "right" model will cover all regimes and still reduce to match what we already have.
AlphaProof's Greatest Hits
Next step is AI scammers who will talk indefinitely with AI scambaiters.
Is this where XaoS (long time open source fractal generator) got its name from?

https://xaos-project.github.io/
A modern application of simmilar concept:

https://www.psi.ch/en/drs
Some good points. Some more like paranoia.
Villiam, for some reason I can't respond to one of your old posts about the Velumount device. May I email you about that?
On the server, applications are generally super close to their backend dependencies, so multiple round trips to data stores, caches and whatnot are no problem. On the client, this would be deadly.

So it’s not just easy to take code that runs on the server and run it on the client. Anytime the client needs to do more than one round trip, it would have been faster to render the data completely on the server, html included.

Additionally, with SPA’s there’s a lot of nuance around back/forward handling, page transitions, etc. that make a page based application awkward to turn into a purely client side one.
There are no downsides to keeping off-cloud physical backup sets of most critical data in a firesafe or two (and still needed for SOC 2 compliance I understand)

> Aug 23: CloudNordic said: “The attackers succeeded in encrypting all servers’ disks, as well as on the primary and secondary backup system, whereby all machines crashed and we lost access to all data.”
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42017578

This thing happens automatically on the first workday of the month.