skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Forensic linguists use grammar, syntax and vocabulary to help crack cold cases
> Merkel acknowledged that she had supported Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris in their ultimately unsuccessful presidential bids against Trump and said their defeats had filled her with sadness.

Ah ok, the lede was buried.
I look at translations as works by themselves. I don't think it's possible to recreate the feeling of experiencing a work in its original language without actually learning that language. One truly cannot experience Shakespeare unless one reads him in the original Klingon.

That doesn't mean that translations are useless, but you're kidding yourself if you think you understand the phrase that translated to "smells of" in the same way that a Japanese person would. It's evocative to you, but native speakers may not even think of it as a metaphor. As an example, do you think of a human face when someone refers to the "face" of a clock? Do you imagine an organist when someone says they are "pulling out all the stops"?

Only real Japanese speakers can experience works of art in Japanese, just as Germans who don't speak English can't actually experience Hasselhoff the way Americans do, try as they might. People can create works of art inspired by the originals, and call them translations, but they are new works.
The review complexity rating sounds pretty cool. I'll look into that, thanks! Is there anything you'd wish PR-Agent had and it doesn't?
given that china banned iphones for government use, it is highly indicative of apple having, not just back doors, but ones that china can not open or more importantly shut.....yet.....or quietly enough
This already happens, actually. At the range I go to, you can rent fully automatic weapons and they'll walk it out with you, and for a non-trivial cost of usually $1/round, you can spray the range down. You can also rent a number of more conventional weapons to try as well.
Researchers define new subtypes of common brain disorder
We won't stop until the entire web has been enshittified.
I read Crime and Punishment as a teenager and I enjoyed it quite a bit. Raskolnikov’s misadventures are not ‘fun’ but as a psychological exploration of guilt (or lack thereof), it was very interesting.

I like Notes from the Underground and his other short stories (like the Double) even more.
The problem is that you're looking for logic. There isn't any: it's a basic right.

Put another way: in the US, it is far more likely that we would collectively lose the ability to drive than we would the "right to bear arms."
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I don’t think that you can make the case that the existence of aws has made access to cloud services more expensive.

There is a ton of vendors who are competing on price. Although to be fair once you pick a vendor you are locked in their ecosystem. There is definitely friction in the market.
Is this a weird Texas thing? Like how they sued Oprah for saying she wouldn't eat beef?
I guess like most of these kinds of projects, it'll be smaller, less flashy breakthroughs or milestones along the way.
Their shitty UI is also not doing them any infrastructure favors, during load it'll straight up write 90% of an answer, and then suddenly cancel and delete the whole thing, so you have to start over and waste time generating the entire answer again instead of just continuing for a few more sentences. It's like a DDOS attack where everyone gets preempted and immediately starts refreshing.
Learning maths is all about having the proper prerequisites (and time and effort...). The concepts all build on simpler ones in a hierarchy leading down to our basic ideas of numbers and space, so if you're missing any of those simpler ones you simply won't be able to understand anything more advanced or exotic except in a very fragmentary or superficial way.

For differential geometry the prerequisites are linear algebra and multi-variable calculus, and the prerequisite for multi-variable calculus is single variable calculus, and the prerequisites for each of those is basic algebra, trigonometry, and elementary geometry.

You don't need to know everything about each of these to get things at the next level, but a thorough grounding in the basics is essential in my experience. There's a reason every STEM field begins with calculus and linear algebra - they're used everywhere in anything at a higher level. Once you get through those you will find things open up for you.

I don't know your level so it's difficult to make any concrete recommendations, but in general I find Lang's books to be clear and efficient sources. His Short Calculus covers all the basics of single variable calculus in less than 200 pages, instead of ~500 pages like many intro to calc books. Similarly his Calculus of Several Variables is ~300 pages instead of 500-700. Alternatively a mathematical methods for physicists book like the one by Riley, Hobson, and Bence might suit you. It's huge (~1300 pages), but you can pick out the chapters you want to learn from and it builds up from the basics to some quite sophisticated mathematics and has references if you want more depth on some topic, and great problems.

I find I don't really learn anything from watching videos. They can be complementary, but most of the learning with maths comes from doing problems after reading through an introduction to the concepts
quantum computers can (should be able to; do not currently) solve many useful problems without ever being able to factor primes.
The big tech companies are spending enormous amounts for part ownership in startups whose only assets are knowledge that exists in the public domain, systems that the companies could have engineered themselves, and model weights trained with the buyer's own capital. The people who will get hurt are public investors who are having their investment used to make a few startup people really rich.
The same Ken Paxton:

> Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton fled his home in a truck driven by his wife, state Sen. Angela Paxton, to avoid being served a subpoena Monday, according to an affidavit filed in federal court.

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/09/26/texas-attorney-gener...
The US drives on the right, the UK drives on the left. I understand it's common for travelers to get mixed up.

I agree it would've been better for the perpetrator to face justice in the UK.
Here's another discovery I made, it looks like they are using wordplay:

"Ceci n'est pas" (French for "This is not"):

1 ceci.njalla.do

2 nest.pipe.ma

3 pas.njalla.in

Translates loosely to "This is not domain information" or "This is not DO (Domain Operations)."

"You can get no info":

1 you.njalla.no

2 can.njalla.in

3 get.njalla.fo

If anyone has come across something similar, wordplay, etc, if would be interesting to hear.
The two companies are not the same; their dominant positions are in different markets which means the anti-trust implications of them extending into a specific market have to be judged separately.

As an extreme example, Oracle had a dominant position in the enterprise database market in the late '90s, but it wouldn't have been an abuse of that position if they'd integrated a web browser into Oracle 8.
The flat earther used a fibre optic gyro. You don't "zero" it, it continuously outputs a measurement of its own angular rate around it's sensitive axis. For a 3-axis gyro placed still on earth, it will read about 15 degree/hour around wherever the axis of earth is oriented.
Categorically might be a bit much. Duplicating bits with majority voting is an error correction code, its just not a very efficient one.

Like its wrong, but its not like its totally out of this world wrong. Or more speciglficly its in the correct category.
You're letting your prejudices jump you to wrong conclusions about what's going on.

While it might be politically pleasurable to imagine a bunch of ivory tower idiots, the real reason driving dam removal isn't salmon, it's preventing catastrophic dam collapse. That's why there's state and federal funding for a lot of dam removal.

The dams being removed are old, obsolete, and end of life. They were usually put in place before we had a power grid.

Leaving them in place isn't an option, they will eventually fail. Spending money to replace or repair a dam that doesn't do anything is a waste.

Removing them also has a ton of environmental benefits, and improves the area for current and future residents.

It really is a win-win situation in that everyone benefits: conservation groups, tribal groups, fishing and hunting groups and taxpayers.
A couple fun ones I remember taking:

- Recently: Given some basic intermediate output from LLM system, build out evaluation/quality tools, especially for dealing with hallucination
- ~8 years ago: Given a database table of restaurants, identify near-duplicates to merge

On the hiring manager side of things, my candidates generally enjoyed doing a take-home to build a ML model for the Li & Roth question classification dataset. That involved a bit more creativity and it was very role-related.

After being on both sides of the interview process, my current feeling is that take-homes are a decent fit for junior roles but take-homes are not a good use of time (on either side) for senior roles.
Smuggling files under Google's nose
There is a demo video here:

https://github.com/ricott1/rebels-in-the-sky/tree/main/demo
I cannot get into it, plus I am getting a cert issue. I guess the Gov of Texas has no idea how to run a site. But they can arrest people for boycotting ?

I can only assume this has to do with people leaving Twitter, which I did a week ago.
One idea I had was if there was an optional dashboard overview across all the repos it's enabled on where users could directly trigger / interact with specific PRs or issues - that would be neat.

Oh something else great it has - you can run it locally against any repo or branch, great for testing or pre-commit hooks.
Pokémon Go Plot to Use Your Data to Fast Track an AI-Slop Google Maps Competitor
That is a shame. My degree required advanced topics at the undergraduate level particularly because of the subject matter (think aeronautics and aerospace). In many ways I’ve found that this knowledge has made life a lot easier in surprising ways. It also tends to be surprisingly transferable in unexpected ways.

As they say, ignorance is bliss, I guess.
"All electronics are hand-warmers if miscalibrated correctly enough."
Theory-wise, I'm not convinced that the models have good approximation properties (the Kolmogorov-Arnold / Kolmogorov Superposition Theorem they base themselves on has quite a bit of nuance), and the optimization problem might be a bit tricky. I'm also can't see how to incorporate inductive biases other than the standard R^n / tabular regression one, and the existing attempts on this that I'm aware of are just band-aids (along the lines of feature engineering).

In practice, I've personally ran some benchmarks on a collection of datasets I had laying around. The results were generally abysmal, with the method only matching simple baselines in some few datasets.

Finally, the original paper is very weird, and reads more as a marketing piece. The theory, which is touted throughout the paper, is very weak, the actual algorithm is not sufficiently well explained there and the experiments are lacking. In particular, I find it telling that they do not include and even go out of their way to ignore important baselines such as boosted trees, which are the state-of-the-art solution to the problem that they intended to solve (and even work very well in occasions where they claim that both KANs and MLPs perform badly, e.g. in high dimensions).
> "While promoted as a “strike,” this was simply an aggressive campaign of intimidation, hate, and harassment, as seen in this video."

Well, there’s nothing hateful about genociding a bunch of people, right? /s

Pro-zionist publications will focus on the one jackass screaming about a “final solution” (who is trying to highjack a peaceful message) and ignore the valid criticisms of thousands of peace-advocates who want the killing to stop.
Wish we had more skinnable applications these days. UI has become so flat and boring. It’s like the industry became allergic to fun.
FTFA:

> Attorney General Paxton is investigating a possible coordinated plan or conspiracy to withhold advertising dollars from certain social media platforms by pressuring advertisers not to purchase online advertising space. Although companies are free to choose when and where they want to advertise, a conspiracy among companies along these lines can result in harm to competition and may violate the Texas Free Enterprise and Antitrust Act of 1983. The civil investigative demand requests documents and information related to WFA [World Federation of Advertisers] and its sub-organization known as the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (“GARM”) organizing their membership to potentially boycott social media platforms that are deemed to violate their “Brand Safety Standards.”

It doesn't seem so far fetched that an organization called Global Alliance for Responsible Media would support a boycott of platforms they don't think are their brand of "responsible". If they coordinated that boycott, then they could be in actual trouble.
Meta doesn’t buy competition?
All diodes are also light SENSING is you try hard enough.
>Your activity throughout this submission leads me to believe you have a great deal of investment in this subject...somehow.

I wouldn't say that. This is something I tend to do in many topics on HN. My only investment is "I'm lonely and I use social media as a faux conversation piece with others"

>But when you're speaking on it you aren't doing anything other than correcting me on my perceived conflation.

Well neither of us is giving a concice definition to begin with. My was by design becsuse I think there is no precise definition of "content" nor "content creator". It's someone who takes the time to produce some sort of creation, often with the goal of sharing on social media. The content can be nearly anything from there.

>Is it because my framing is different than yours that it's unworthy of legitimate criticism?

I already explained that part. You want to criticize "content" without a precise lens to begin with. It's like criticizing "books" because you didn't like Atlus Shrugged. There's lots of books not by ayn rind, that is fictional, that has pictures, that takes different framing on the world, etc. So saying "books are taken over by social justice" simply rings hollow.

>criticism on the surface makes me feel more confident in the things that you didn't address.

Sure, because I said I don't care about your main point. It's simply a topic I care not to dive down again. Hence, my Apathy.

>If you're able to, why not put your perspective on life into practice for me. Engage the part of my comment that has nothing to do with why you replied and doesn't appeal to you.

I will not. I made a specific reply to someone that wasn't you, you chimed in, and I choose to focus on my specific point. For reasons above.

I wish you a good day.
Maybe my tinfoil hat is a bit too tight, but every time fedgov wants a new algo certified I question how strong it is and if they've already figured out a weakness. Once bitten twice shy or something????
I'm honestly shocked at how many people seem to ignore Apple's developer fee. The Core Technology fee is a hackneyed attempt at trying to preserve the same broken system, and it too will be removed in time. It was only allowed to exist unchallenged when Apple created a minuscule loophole for nonprofits, and even then it was the cause of a second EU probe: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/24/apple-app-store-rules-are-in...

You keep showing up in these threads to repeat the same "this is how it is" shtick, but you're seemingly terrified of the "what could be" aspect. Apple's abuse of their coalesced power is still illegal in Europe and Apple is still in the process of designing their remediation. If the US wasn't fundamentally corrupt Apple would have been put on trial years ago - citing America's preliminary rulings is less of a feather in Apple's cap and more an example of how far consumer protections have fallen in the West.
Doesn't feel like a breakthrough. A positive engineering step forward, sure, but not a breakthrough.

And wtf does AI have to do with this?
This is a pretty scary threat to free speech. There also appears to be a blatant conflict of interest here, considering the owner of the "certain social platform" in question hasn't left the side of the president-elect in weeks and the Attorney General of Texas is directly aligned with the same two oligarchs - Musk and Trump.

How is this anything other than using the power of the Texas State Government to run an extortion racket, designed to funnel money straight to Musk?

Corporations are allowed to choose where they want to spend their advertising budget, and if they don't want to have their ads showing between conspiracy theories and outright hate, that's allowed.
They also colonized Finns, Balts, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Poles, etc.
> AG Ken Paxton files 100th lawsuit against Biden administration

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2024/11/12/ag-ken-p...

Yeah, it's theater and not to be taken seriously.
Wow. I just found Ensō and it's freaking awesome. I often use focus mode in IDEs if available. Probably I'm going to try it instead of my Obsidian.

Also, I wish something similar existed for mobile as well.
> I cannot get into it, plus I am getting a cert issue. I guess the Gov of Texas has no idea how to run a site.

You might want to update your browser or something. The cert on this site is valid through Feb 2025.
And when you scratch the stickers they smell like strawberry.
Microsoft even had first mover advantage, acquired the largest cell phone maker in the world and still failed...
Taint checking as in Perl would be nice.
£1 promotions practically every week for the locals. I damned near ate French cuisine in Calais on a weekly basis as a kid.
Thank you for doing the background work. Wild they've never been mentioned before. And this time, not in relation to their music...
Is it possible to get a personal license for testing ??
You don't seem to understand the Ukrainian perspective here.

So pretty straight from one Captain I know: in 1991 the Budapest agreement had Ukraine relinquish its nukes in exchange for security guarantees from both Russia and the US, amongst others.
Clearly these guarantees were lies so let's grab some plutonium from the plants we got, and make imprecisely-yielding trucks to save our motherland.
This is the escalation we want to avoid, chipmunk Putin and his mafia have a lot more to lose with their decades of graft, I fear cornered Uk generals with enough bullet-in-the-head short-term POW sons and Bucha-burn-after-use daughters to their name may have much less to hesitate for.
The problem is that every defendant against the power of the state must take lawsuits extremely seriously. Getting laughed out of court is not a given when it’s your court.
From the looks of it, no. I wonder if there was another solution?
The rock?! That’s incredible. I would have guessed it was too dense to pick up normal speaking volume. Then again, even the window glass vibration seems pretty magical to me.
Well, if you looked into the subject at all, you'd learn that these dams are obsolete and don't generate much, if any, hydropower.

They were usually put in place before we had a power grid.
No, it's just a different flavor of colonization.

Plenty of other empires have attempted to assimilate the colonized population to some degree. It's not even an unusual aspect of colonization; historically it's been a ubiquitious aspect, in fact.
Sometimes it’s necessary when using tailwind (I often use traditional CSS for animations). What’s the hip way to have CSS specific to a component? I remember StyledComponents from years ago. I wasn’t as much into front end then.
> But, I know that I'm exposed to QC risks in that at some point I'll need to change every security key I've ever generated and every crypto algorithm every piece of software uses.

Probably not. Unless a real sudden unexpected breakthrough happens, best practise will be to use crypto-resistant algorithms long before this becones a relavent issue.

And practically speaking its only public-key crypto that is an issue, your symmetric keys are fine (oversimplifying slightly, but practically speaking this is true)
Suing the current administration is a normal[1] and healthy practice for States to protect their rights and keep the federal government in check. Every administration, R and D, are sued relentlessly by states.

For better or worse, it is how our legal system works.

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/state-attorne...
You can find context in your post that I replied to. And even in my own post.

>Because they don't want Israel's prisoners to spill over into their country.

Israel's zionists has a pretty long history of terrorism as well, even against the British.
Google takes down fake news sites run by Chinese influence operation
I think MLKJ and other participants in the Montgomery bus boycott were indicted on similar offenses.
You can exit with the down arrow
I think you may be glossing over how difficult it is to pass a Constitutional amendment.
This works fine and is what I’ve done. But if you’re sending email from those domains or working with enterprise customers using the same TLD will be helpful.
A lot of people like myself consider heat a form of light but I guess a photographer would be just thinking visible light. They say that about 50% of the sun's light emissions comes in the infrared frequencies.
I agree it’s better for coding but it hits limits or seems very slow , even on paid subscription, a lot more often than ChatGPT
In case anyone may be researching lately, I'd appreciate learning about potentially any useful content, tools, or suggestions to build or train more AI agents.

CrewAI is already on the radar :)
> I think for every student thoughtfully using ChatGPT, there are a dozen who mindlessly dump homework in and copy the output verbatim.

is it fair to say that this same argument applies universally for everything?

> I'm taking classes at a community college for fun, and it's frankly disturbing how reliant the 18-20 y/o crowd is on ChatGPT to do basic tasks

I understand where you are going with this but this tech is here and it is not going anywhere and it will be interwoven into every aspect of our lives - these are just facts. At work a year ago it was like few of us were playing around with it, now there is no one on the team that isn't using claude/cursor/copilot/chatgpt... and if we had someone that didn't fairly certain they would not last more than a few months. I think instead of fighting it you should embrace it. if you have unfounded trust (rightfully so) check and check and verify and check and verify. even with all that it is amazing piece of tech without which you will be at a disadvantage both in school as well as work as well as...

> I do think LLMs have a place in education, but right now I see them exacerbating existing problems in high school / college aged generations. There's a low tolerance for frustration and grappling with a new problem, or applying past learning to a new situation.

ohhhh 1000000% but we have to keep in mind that the tech is in its infancy and there will be growing pains...
The thing is that until as recently as the 1960s the 2nd Amendment wasn't widely interpreted to be about anything other than militias. Radiolab has a great episode on how a small but vocal minority shifted the NRA from a sports shooting (think Olympics) group to what it is today. https://radiolab.org/podcast/more-perfect-the-gun-show