skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apologies for focusing on just one sentence of this article, but I feel like it's crucial to the overall argument:

> ... if [shrimp] suffer only 3% as intensely as we do ...

Does this proposition make sense? It's not obvious to me that we can assign percentage values to suffering, or compare it to human suffering, or treat the values in a linear fashion.

It reminds me of that vaguely absurd thought experiment where you compare one person undergoing a lifetime of intense torture vs billions upon billions of humans getting a fleck of dust in their eyes. I just cannot square choosing the former with my conscience. Maybe I'm too unimaginative to comprehend so many billions of bits of dust.
What if in the call they claim the suspect is armed and threatening to start shooting hostages if the police show up? Do they still just knock on the door?
If your goal is just to raise some weight above an arbitrary height, why wouldn’t you?
> In 2014, it was reported that senior personnel at the National Gallery estimated that the current value of the painting is in excess of $40 million.

Sounds like the purchase worked out well for the taxpayers...
They can do all of that, of course. My point is that their condescending attitude is going to lose potential contributors like me, when most open source projects embrace a much more welcoming environment. Maybe they are doing fine, I don't know. But I have worked on enough open source projects to know that it is not the best position they can be in.
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It is nice with the app though. Topping up, alerts, GPS for where your car is. It's annoying it's multiple apps, but the apps do add value.
> I guarantee these officers are horrified that the man was innocent and frustrated that they were put in this situation.

How many cops do you know? They might say they're horrified to the media, but that's not how they operate when no one's watching. There's a reason these SWATting events keep happening: cops enjoy them just as much as the SWATters do. They get to bust out their fun military surplus toys and do their SEAL Team 6 cosplay. If they wanted to stop these SWATting events, they would have found a solution by now.

Check out these highlights (lowlights?) from the Minnesota Department of Human Rights investigation of the Minneapolis Police Department:

https://racketmn.com/human-rights-report-mpd-needs-major-ove...

These are not people known for nuance or remorse.

Link to the full investigation report:

https://mn.gov/mdhr/assets/Investigation%20into%20the%20City...
There're also more good faith use cases like stopping credit card testing, ticket reselling and forum spam.
Whenever we touch anything in a Unity shader graph, the editor stalls
sharks. maybe even Russian sharks.
What is data oriented design? (2023)
"this kind", "left unchecked", "may ultimately"; that's three levels of maybes used to defend a definitive "are more dangerous" claim, not exactly inspiring rigour.
Money. The insurance company gives a discount. And honestly, for someone who doesn't share my same strong values for privacy, I don't blame them!
> flagged for having my opinion

You'll sooner be bashed for gratuitous drama.

On topic: people both need meaning and creature comforts. No meaning, they'll wait for death; no comfort, they'll move, that was the brain is there for.
> Bhutan's balance of trade appears to be entirely negative. So the country is getting poorer.

This must be very much true of the US, too, then, and has been for a long time? Its trade balance is negative to the tune of tens of billions.
GraphQL says nothing about databases at all. Resolvers can get resources from anything, they’re agnostic.

None of that is inherent to the technology but it’s a common folly among developers. This is an issue with REST too but it can be more obfuscated
What if in the call they claim the suspect has a nuclear bomb and is threatening to blow up the city? It's kind of a similar scenario, given that I can't remember either of these ever happening. People here don't tend to have guns.
How about one million kittens or one human?
For examples of stations that don't fit on one screen when viewed on mobile ... open any one from the UK
I thought this would be about geography...
Anyone anywhere in the world can pay money to steal some of your attention.

Until that changes, we'll continue to decrease the duty cycle of personal agency in our lives.
>I wonder if this was supposed to be Nine Angels. Copy editing on the web is so sloppy that I'm going to assume so because it makes more sense (to me).

I'm going to assume that wired got it right and it's the neo-nazis that misspelled it; it's much funnier that way.
Looks to me like they seeded the distinction several messages earlier. If you expand the messages, one of them has a very large block of text and this in the middle:

> I cannot have personal experiences, but I can imagine how this theory might manifest in human behavior.

And ends with:

> put in paragraph form in laymen terms
Even better, you get the alert if you click too quickly on the left/right arrows in the galleries because it thinks you're trying to select text.
Related:

data-oriented-design
- A GitHub curated list of Data Oriented Design resources:

https://github.com/dbartolini/data-oriented-design
A combinatorial neural code for long-term motor memory
Waiting for the funny reveal that this is a prank
The printing press predates the 1st Amendment
And the high maintenance costs. Just took a hybrid SUV in for maintenance after my maintenance plan expired, got a depressingly high price quote for extended maintenance. Adds literally thousands of dollars to the price.
As Hong Kong Downsizes, Animoca Built a Workspace the Size of 10 Tennis Courts
I assume you never tried to add a contact form to your website.

Explanation: I did, and within a few days bots started sending me spam using that form. I just added a trivial captcha (hardcoded '2+3=' question), but if my scale was bigger that would be untenable. Think also of PM spam, autoregistering accounts to abuse free tiers, etc.
Unlike a king, which famously can't be bought.
People in the US "don't tend to" take hostages and threaten to shoot them either. "Don't tend to" isn't the same as "it never happens".
So your issue is that US public companies need return on investment, but that Chinese ones don't? There's nothing "insane" about the ROI at GM or Ford...
Vidu4D: Single Generated Video to 4D Reconstruction with Dynamic Gaussian Surfel
Do you know why ACAB? Is not because they are rude, it's not cause they mean. It's because they participate in a societal role that requires them to do bastardly things.

They have to enforce unjust laws and unjust outcomes, and statistically do so more heavily across minority populations.

The institution requires them to be bastards, ACAB is a statement about the institution of police and the people who elect to join that institution.
> the fact that I have no idea (as a non-AI-researcher) what benchmark this is

The figure labels it as as "average score [on] 6 multimodal reasoning benchmarks", and the caption notes that the full results are in table 7 - which lists those benchmarks: MMStar-R, MMBench-R, MMVet-R, MathVista, AI2D, Hallusion

I think it's mostly fine as a lead diagram giving an overview before going into detail.
Hi HN! I built a free Chrome Extension that lets you upload folders to Claude Projects directly. I grew tired of manually uploading files for large projects, but now I can just select the folder and have it handle everything for me.

The extension ignores folders/files such as .env, node_modules, .git, font files, etc. You can also add custom regex for files to ignore to suit it for your own needs.

Hope this makes interacting with Claude Projects slightly easier!
I mean, you're not wrong. And in general, this is ... high-stakes bullying. And if you let them get away with this, I agree that they'll keep pushing the boundary, even more than they already have;
This is how use of language concealed aphantasia for so long. When you use a word in a context similar to how another used it in that context there seems to be a presumption that the subjective experience is the same in that context.

Given how we learn languages and words based upon encountering them in contexts, it makes sense that terms that we use in outwardly similar contexts reflect the subjective experience that each of us relate to those terms. We don't have access to another's subjective experience so I can see how it would encourage the assumption that we all perceive things the same way.

There might be many undetected variances in perception akin to aphantasia lurking in us waiting to be discovered.
Bitcoin's Identity Crisis
Where did the kittens come from?

If they were spawned into existence for this thought experiment, then the human, probably.

But if even one of those kittens were mine, entire cities could be leveled before I let anyone hurt my kitten.
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I always use hard drugs like heroin as an example of this.

If the gov made it all legal tomorrow, are you going to run out and buy some?

Probably not, right?
Thanks for your question! Basemulti differentiates itself in several key ways:

1. Lightweight and Easy Deployment: Basemulti doesn't require Docker and can be deployed to Vercel with a single click, making it incredibly easy to get started.

2. Flexible Field Types: We support a wide range of field types including email, single/multi-select, and relational fields, offering more flexibility in data structuring.

3. Universal Database Compatibility: Basemulti works with any MySQL, SQLite, or PostgreSQL database, whether new or existing.

4. Non-Invasive Integration: When connecting to an existing database, Basemulti creates a virtual layer for all configurations. This means you can add Airtable-like interfaces and APIs without altering your original database schema or affecting existing operations.

These features make Basemulti particularly suitable for teams looking to quickly build on top of their existing data infrastructure without the overhead of traditional no-code platforms.
Nah, the issue is the one that many developing countries suffer from: brain drain.

The best people leave the country because the can earn orders of magnitude more money in the developed world. This is why countries like the US keep being so successful while developing countries stay poor.

It is just the rational best decision for a young people to try their luck abroad and earn more money that they could ever dream of in their home country. Why shouldn't they? Idealism? There is nothing wrong with striving for a better life, it is what moves humanity forward.

Offering great and free education will always backfire for developing nations.

The solution is to either keep the population ignorant, hamstringing their education so they are less useful abroad and implementing a strict censorship regime so they don't get "corrupted" by the West or well force them to stay.

We saw that all play out in the Soviet Block. There is a good reason there was a wall.

I think the fairest solution is to NOT make education free but instant offer a deal of having to stay in the country and work for X-years in the profession one has been trained in by the state. Once they get older and settle down they are less likely to leave anyway.

Being a developing country just sucks. There is a reason most never break the cycle of poverty.
>Wages have been stagnant in the United States for nearly 50 years.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CES0500000003

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LEU0252881500A

There simply isn't data to back this up.

What you are referring to is capital gains (CEO pay) compared to hourly pay (employee pay), which is a misleading apples to oranges comparison.
1 it takes time and effort to make major architectural changes.

Certain design choices made for other reasons may conflict.
Thanks.

Is freelancing really that different? I keep hearing opinion for both sides ranging from "freelancing is truly different" to "freelancing is corporate/office job in disguise".
This is fascinating! The data-oriented approach with type-specific vectors is quite a departure from traditional architectures like V8. I'm curious about two aspects:

1) Performance in Real-World Scenarios: Have you benchmarked Nova against established engines like V8 or SpiderMonkey in scenarios involving complex, non-linear data access patterns? How does it perform under typical workloads like DOM manipulation or complex async operations?

2) Trade-offs in Garbage Collection: You mentioned the potential pitfalls with vector growth and compaction during GC. Could this design lead to significant memory fragmentation or performance bottlenecks in long-running applications? Are there scenarios where this approach shines or struggles compared to more traditional heap designs?

Looking forward to seeing how Nova evolves and the kind of applications it thrives in!
True as far as it goes, but "they didn't actually do it" is a different story from "they did it secretly". The two claims exclude each other, so you can't really compare them in the context of "credit".
What a ridiculous argument. By this “logic” anyone could claim anything at all is “a simple for of Christianity” and you’d jump in to say “why yes, you see some people don’t view Christianity as meaning much of anything, therefore we can clearly argue it means everything!”

Suit yourself but I find this reasoning cyclically brain-dead.
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How do you know that people in Buthan were actually happy?
Yeah; the solar part is really questionable. In an installation without batteries, they’d need an additional large tank to store excess daytime output.

Without such a tank, they’d need to somehow power the thing at night, which means a big battery, just like RO.

Also, the article suggests the power input needs to be steady and they use a computer to run it at higher rates when the battery would be charging.

Assuming there is a small battery or power grid (as both systems require), you could oversize an RO system and then change its duty cycle to keep the batteries at (say) 80% to prevent the solar production from curtailing. Round-tripping electricity through our home battery loses about 20%.

So, the “advantage” boils down to two questions that the article doesn’t answer: (1) what are the relative energy efficiencies of this system (in theory) vs RO? If the new system is 20% worse, RO wins, regardless of this optimization (2) what is the relative equipment cost vs. max throughput? (Since both setups assume oversizing to get better solar utilization).

I’d also like to know if the new system requires plastic, since the RO membrane probably leaches all sorts of nasties into its output.

I do like the fact that they are focusing on brackish water. We have this problem even in the coastal US (in the form of water softener output), and I’m sure they could sell a premium alternative to RO as a way to get scaling advantages on the manufacturing of the equipment.
> We don’t understand LLMs.

Correction: you are either unwilling or unable to understand LLMs. Myself and many others in fact do "understand LLMs".

Just because an orange cloth illuminated by a yellow light and lifted by a 12v fan looks like fire has zero bearing on if it can produce heat.
Also came expecting something entirely different.
It is absolutely not common.

It is reasonable to expect contributors to have a certain amount of programming experience, but I rarely see any open source projects ask for requirements in a very specific area like a job posting. Many open source projects -- I am not talking about React or VSCode -- would be happy to see people creating pull requests at all, and are willing to provide pointers or hints for people who have experience but may not be so proficient in a specific language. Most of the projects work well that way.
These job advertisements in the newspaper don't want applicants
There is a pretty active subreddit for woodworking. There are also several old school forums like LumberJocks and Sawmill Creek.
The best way to save even more shrimps would be to campaign for and subsidize whaling. They are shrimp-mass-murdering machines. What's a few whales versus billions of shrimps?
Alas, some would rather let criminal governments invade sovereign countries, commit acts of global sabotage and murder dissidents all over the world rather than take any action at all to dissuade them. Peace through appeasement is likely to work as well as it has at any other point in history.
QUIC feels very pragmatic in terms of being built on UDP. As a lay person I don’t have a sense what additional gains might be on the table if the UDP layer were also up for reconsideration.
This is an intensely weird read. I kept waiting for the satire to become more obvious. Maybe throw in a reference or two to the Futurama episode "The Problem with Popplers". But by the end I can only conclude that it is sincere.

I guess what strikes me the most odd is that not eating shrimp is never suggested as an alternative. It starts from the premise that, well, we're going to eat shrimp anyway, so the least we could do is give them a painless death first. If you follow this logic to its extremes, you get things like, "well, it's expensive to actually feed these starving children, but for just pennies a day you can make sure they at least die painlessly".
AI Investments are Booming but VC profits are at an historic low
I think people who say education is the solution to democracy, or in particular to the people voting someone the spearker does not like, mean "educate more people to believe what I believe".

It's clearly a good solution from the perspective of that speaker - more people would vote the same way they do, so the "right" people would get elected, "right" policies would happen and so on.

Meh, if this avoiding the "definition of good" is really the problem, then the likes of Putin and Xi and Trump will fix us. They clearly think they know exactly what's good for everyone, and are willing to do most anything to achieve it. Doubtful they will make the world a better place, but who knows. I guess we'll find out.
The solar adds 40 miles roughly every 8 hours of sunlight. Of course it's not a way to get 100% charged regularly, but how often do you need the battery at 100%? 40 "free" miles a business day is still a game changer in fuel usage.
> for you to protect them from themselves

It certainly is, because society has consequences over the individual.

People cannot be free to damage you: it is not «protect[ing] them from themselves», it is "protecting yourself from them".
I hope we can end the CAPTCHA experiment soon. It didn't work.

Phone verification isn't good either, but for as much as I hate phone verification at least it actually raises the cost of spamming somewhat. CAPTCHA does not. Almost all turnkey CAPTCHA services can be solved for pennies.

Solving the problems of SPAM and malicious traffic will be challenging... I am worried it will come down to three possible things:

- Anonymity of users: validating someone's real-life identity sufficiently would make it possible to permanently ban malicious individuals and filter out bots with good effectiveness, but it will destroy anonymity online. In my opinion, literally untenable.

- Closing the platform: approaches like Web Environment Integrity and Private Access Tokens pave the way for how the web platform could be closed down. The vast majority of web users use Google Chrome or Safari on a device with Secure Boot, so the entire boot chain can be attested. The number of users that can viably do this will only increase over time. In this future, the web ceases to meaningfully be open: alternatives to this approach will continue to become less and less useful (e.g. machine learning may not achieve AGI but it's going to kick the ass of every CAPTCHA in sight) so it will become increasingly unlikely you'll be able to get into websites without it.

- Accountability of network operators: Love it or hate it, the Internet benefits a lot from gray-area operators that operate with little oversight or transparency. However, another approach to getting rid of malicious traffic is to push more accountability to network operators, severing non-compliant providers off of the Internet. This would probably also suck, and would incentivize abusing this power.

It's tricky, though. What else can you do? You can try to reduce the incentives to have malicious traffic, but it's hard to do this without decreasing the value that things offer. You can make malicious traffic harder by obfuscation, but it's hard to stop motivated parties.

Either way, it feels like the era of the open web is basically over. The open web may continue to exist, but it will probably be overshadowed by a new and much more closed off web.
I was wondering the same thing but cannot find any reference to Chaos in their documentation or forum.
You could have Googled it. First result https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Nine_Angles
How does that works for, say, Chromium or Firefox on Linux ?
I’ve spent many evenings there, the owner definitely has a soft spot for clown portraits
There is usually nepotism in monarchy though, right?

What about enforcing the "at random" part by implementing monarchy as sortition with one person?
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Probably not: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Nine_Angles
Anyone interested in this should look into BorgWarner, the company that produces most of the EV power trains in the US. They charge a several x markup and hold a virtual monopoly.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.10440
I'm not sure I follow the logic, unless absolutely all the inputs are under tariff.

But in any case, where there's an incentive, there's a way. Alternative inputs will be sought.
Make your own simple SaaS product. Maybe look at bearblog.dev for inspiration.
But on the internet the answer to „what is a conoid“ is just a web search away.

The bigger problem is when other options of a captcha fit in another cultural context.

Taxi colors are an example for that.
This looks like a promising tool for working with unstructured documents! A few questions come to mind:

1) Data Accuracy: How do you ensure the extracted data aligns perfectly with the source? Are there specific safeguards or confidence scoring mechanisms in place to flag potentially inaccurate extractions, or is this left entirely to manual review?

2) Customization and Flexibility: Many real-world scenarios involve highly specific schemas or even multi-step extraction workflows. Does Documind allow for layered or conditional parsing where fields depend on the values of others?

3) Local Hosting for Confidential Data: Data confidentiality is a big concern for many businesses (e.g., legal or financial industries). While it's great that Documind is open source, do you have any built-in provisions or guides for secure local hosting, especially in resource-constrained environments?

Looking forward to seeing how this evolves—seems like a tool with great potential for streamlining document processing!
Have you read the linked paper by Norcross? "Great harms from small benefits grow: how death can be outweighed by headaches" [0].

[0]: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3328486
I'm probably your age, kids back in my day would kill or injure other kids for being gay or Black. I think a lot of bullying has actually gone down, but because of the internet one sociopathic kid can fuck over people at scale.