skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only tangentially related, but because they are so amazing here are a few videos that illustrate the process of transcription (creating mRNA from DNA) and translation (creating a protein from mRNA).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMtWvDbfHLo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfYf_rPWUdY

The common complaint with these videos is that everything is more complex. One thing that isn't evident is that these specific videos (built mostly by Drew Barry) actually model a lot of other molecules to create a more realistic physical environment with brownian motion and whatnot. Then the irrelevant molecules are simply made transparent in the rendering.

Obviously it's still much much more complex (eg the constant stream of ATP used to drive many of these operations is not illustrated).

There are these and many more great illustrations/explanations at WEHImovies on youtube

https://www.youtube.com/@WEHImovies
So I’ve heard this a lot, but how can we actually test this? The only realistic test I can imagine here is that the TSA shuts down for a decade and we see what happens?
For the 1000th time here, even extremely well developed public transport by US standards and various financial punishments for owning cars is simply not enough for people to drop them, the convenience is simply too high.

Look at Switzerland, it has all you want - one of the best rail networks in the world, its tiny, rest of public transport is as good as western Europe can get yet... folks still keep buying new cars, highways are getting fuller every year.

Maybe some AI driven community (or even private fleet) of shared cars to be hailed in Uber style on demand would work, reducing number of cars overall and the need to own personal one(s). Not there yet.
Because even if ICE cars are entirely replaced by electric tomorrow in their entirety, they are still a blight choking up roads with traffic and noise, nevermind the destruction of the rural town or village. The incentive to preserve such an absurd status quo drops away when the loss of manufacturing jobs starts to be less of a question to contend with. They are gone either way, the only question will be if you want to continue having your population pumping hundreds of thousands of dollars into foreign companies or not.
Disagree here. Start your own company, boom, you are the CEO.
Foursquare Open Source Places: New foundational dataset for geospatial community
Incidentally the reason people who actually know the first thing about either music or linguistics would never call it a language, and definitely not a “universal” language.

It’s not universal, and it’s not a language, for any reasonable definition of either word.
This isn’t helicopter parenting, it’s bulldozer parenting. One wonders how they convince themselves that this is good for their child.
Love it, gives me some trpc vibes (idk why) i would love to just create types for my existing endpoints (without rpc).
I mean it's like saying what's the point of a security feature if thing that feature prevents from happening isn't happening after implementing that feature.
Citing nonexistent sources should lower your grade whether you used ai or not.
Not a whole chip, but an important section of one:

https://www.zerotoasiccourse.com/post/3dcells/
>OpenAI tried to recover the data — and was mostly successful. However, because the folder structure and file names were “irretrievably” lost, the recovered data “cannot be used to determine where the news plaintiffs’ copied articles were used to build [OpenAI’s] models,” per the letter.

doesn't seem like they tried pretty hard to recover the data....
A gut punch for me. He was influential in many ways, as multiple comments here have already attested-- in particular the 'Manna' story that has been mentioned several times, which definitely knocked my socks off.

Since no one else has brought it up yet, I want to say that one of his websites, "Why Won't God Heal Amputees" (https://whywontgodhealamputees.com/) was very important in my world. It may not exactly be the most highbrow philosophical or theological treatise you've ever encountered, but it crystallized several points I still consider hugely significant.

For anyone raised by Christian fundamentalists of the type who continue to claim to believe in miracles being possible as a direct result of prayer, it is one of the most important things you may ever read. It lays bare the blatant falsehoods at the root of all such claims, forcing you to grapple with the fact that whatever higher power(s) may exist, they do not keep their supposed written promises in any way that we human beings would consider honest amongst each other.
Input pin pad structure usually contains two reverse biased diodes for ESD protection which should remove the antenna issue.
good compression = pattern eventually

maximum compression = indelineable from random data
Pythia is stupidly easy to use.

Then hookup a simple test harness.
- this is like a grand total of 3 commands
- git pull, install, point and run a model
Resolution, recency, additional training data to up accuracy.
Maybe I am wrong about this, but being a VP is exactly the kind of things that sound like draining the life energy out of someone. VPs all sound completely formatted in a way that only happen if you are under an immense pressure and the only way out is through that very tight exit, which leaves you nearly formatted.
Hetzner Latency Test
simon's writeup is here https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/24/open-interpreter/

i always thought the potential for openinterpreter would be kind of like an "open source chatgpt desktop assistant" app with swappable llms. especially vision since that (specifically the one teased at 4o's launch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJHw33cVeHo) has not yet been released by oai. they made some headway with the "o1" device that they teased.. and then canceled.

instead all the demo usecases seem very trivial: "Plot AAPL and META's normalized stock prices". "Add subtitles to all videos in /videos" seems a bit more interesting but honestly trying to hack it in a "code interpreter" inline in a terminal is strictly worse than just opening up cursor for me.

i'd be interested if anyone here is active users of OI and what you use it for.
Related "Foursquare's 104M Points of Interest" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42219578 and "Foursquare Open Source Places: A new foundational dataset" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42191781
Perhaps its because your comment seemed to equate errors with crimes, or at least malicious intent. The language seems a bit provocative for many, detracting from whatever message was intended.
> Deploying the military as intimidation and using it to remove US citizens is a ploy to retain power.

He wanted to use it to protect election security if there was violence or intimidation from "internal enemies". That's not intimidation, except to intimidate people trying to intimidate voters to corrupt elections.

Who are these citizens he wants to deport? Are they only naturalized citizens? Those people can already legally be deported anyway for reasons like a fraudulent application or committing a serious crime. Are those the same ones he wants to deport? In other words, does he just want to enforce the law that already exists? Regardless, that's not to retain power. You have no evidence for that part which is key to your whole claim. Everything else you claimed is just what the government should be doing anyway.
A place that the present elect of the US referred to as 'hellhole'.
Using AI in school today is heresy, yet give it a few years and "yesterday's heresy is today's canon".
Wild, fascinating, frightening.
why is this not basic for me? yes I am tech guy!
I think you might get in with multiple Bs and a good story about your interest in the subject you're pursuing (or suitably connected family)

"good story" probably doesn't include being too uninterested to write your own answers despite parents so committed to you going to Stanford they're prepared to litigate to get you a B...
There are nations and societies very different from the United States. In the United States, we can see the distrust in our neighbors play out politically, contrasted with other societies trust. You can even see it play out across various states and regions. Perhaps they’re not mountains imposed by human nature, but our perception of society.

Other nations have socialized healthcare, where anyone can be treated. Other nations have calm safe and clean public transit. Other nation’s redistribute wealth and provide strong safety nets. Other nations don’t have mass violence. Other nations guarantee retirement and pensions. Other nations trust their governments.

The fantasy physics aren’t what’s holding people back.
> Yeah, I'm not going to change a job just because one of my superiors is insecure

You likely are, willingly or not.
"Exact Quantum Electrodynamics of Radiative Photonic Environments" (2024) https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.13...
I too, would like to have what you’re having.

Academic publishing doesn’t make the authors money, it costs them money. To publish is a requirement for academic employment, but there’s no incentive to retract, either than revenge, or one’s academic honesty.
Is there a language that makes this explicit, allocates the variables on the stack via compiler enforced notation?
Based on your comment, you've based your identity around something that requires packing the rest of us into traffic like cattle. Many people have died unnecessarily to support this lifestyle. Many more have their time utterly wasted as well. It continues to have drastic negative effects for all life on this planet.

I agree that development shouldn't be chosen based on political beliefs; however, your argument is not without that. I'd ask for you to look into your own biases here.

Do you truly have no individualism without owning a large metal structure and without forcing everyone else to as well? I find that difficult to understand. My individuality is so much more powerful than that.
Wealth inequality. We could all take massive raises and work way less if we didn't structure the economy specifically to benefit the richest 2k people in the country.
>It's a strange feeling, like 5 years of my life just evaporated.

To quote Roy Batty, "All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain."

If there's anything I've noticed in this industry, it's that abstractions tend to outlive their origins. For instance, back in the 80s the Unix systems my workplace used (and subsequently, many of the applications they ran) had an 8 character max username length, and although those old Unix boxes (and their vendors) are long gone, we're still given 8 character usernames since nobody wants to find out the hard way that there still are some applications that depend on an 8 character max or which truncate longer usernames to 8 characters.

If you want to make a lasting impact on an industry but you weren't able to get in on the ground floor, your best bet is to get into advanced R&D, whether at a major hardware company or in academia. Anywhere else and your knowledge will either be wasted because nobody cares or it will be siloed off because the company will never open-source the tech you pioneered (and someone else will likely take the credit for it later on when they create an open-source equivalent).
I was using some ansible playbook scripts to deploy to production some web app. One day the scripts stopped working because of a boring error about python version mismatch.

I rewrite all the deployment scripts with bash (took less than a hour) and never had a problem since.

Morality: it's hard to find the right tool for the job
It is more recent, multi angle, high res data. It allows their training data to be much better.

This "it changes nothing" attitude is unproductive.
It's like people forgot what graceful degradation and progressive enhancement is.
The case for open source solutions in HIPAA
Yet again we accept the premise that we need 'more' security so it is OK to do these types of things. This implies without evidence that there is a problem and then jumps right to the, again, unfounded conclusion that this type of thing will solve that hypothetical issue. The discussion shouldn't be about how to do this 'responsibly', implicitly admitting that there is some sort of need, and instead it should be about how to dismantle things like this completely and how to stop new things like this from ever happening again.
This is the point I was going to make as well. I think the article is written for high-agency people, which are rare in my experience, even in tech.

Also related: The Peter Principle: people get promoted to their level of incompetence. We think we want something but then realize the job is actually harder than we thought, so we do a bad job (or burn out).

So to the excellent points in the article I would add an introspection about the level we want to achieve and how to continue working at that level, assuming we don't hate the job.
The problem is that the school simply didn't teach them about the tool enough, and they taking something that should be just another lesson as disciplinary action.

Why do you expect children to know math only after months of tries, but understand the perils of AI after hearing one sentence regulation? That's not going to help the kids. You need to spend time practicing using the tool with them, showing them the pitfalls in practice, and only after enough time you can start rating them.

The school handed them a gun and they're Pikachu surprised a kid got shot, and now they're blaming it on the kid that had it in hands - but the school is to blame. And it's certainly not newsworthy, or where is the math exam results article?
Static types do provide some guarantees as they rule out an entire class of runtime errors. In case of XMonad, since Haskell's type system is more expressive, the class of runtime errors ruled out at compile-time is broader.
The government of Ireland has many IT systems that cannot handle áccénted letters. #headdesk
gevent was created over a decade ago to solve this.

python users only have themselves to blame for ignoring it.
Interesting! However, assuming that ASCII characters are always rendered correctly and never as "?", it seems like the only solution for "??d?" would be one of the four Łódźs?
A lot of this post hinges on the fact that newlines in filenames were legal, and that people wrote shell without handling quoting correctly. While quoting (as well as ls altering filenames) is still an issue, find -print0, read -d '', and similar are no longer neccessary. Newlines are now forbidden in filenames: https://blog.toast.cafe/posix2024-xcu
> ~5sq km

I get over 6 km^2.

Point still taken.
I should point out that a perceived shift in the general opinion of the overall group doesn't necessarily mean that a lot of individuals within that group had a shift in opinion.

I.e., it's probably affected by who bothers to voice their opinion, and how memorably, at different times.
"Python in Excel runs securely on the Microsoft Cloud, with no setup required"

Is there also a fully local option or is this running in the Cloud only?
I once had to pay about $1500 USD per kWh. That’s $90 USD to boil 1 litre of water.

Consequently I chose to freeze rather than turn on any heating. At that price even LED lighting is too expensive. I probably should have unplugged my fridge too.

But many people chose to keep themselves (and families) warm.

Lesson learnt: never pay the spot price for power. In minutes I probably lost all the saving I had accumulated by micro managing power until that point.
In my ~30 year career in the US, as a local, I have seen constant change. The FAANGs are even an amplified version of this. So when someone draws a comparison I always wonder if they are comparing contemporaries or rather an older experience versus a newer one, which is confounded by these temporal shifts.

I think there are a few significant (first-order) factors in the evolving US tech culture.

One is the often discussed age bias and growth rate, where these organizations are constantly diluting with incoming college grads and leaking their institutional knowledge and culture through low retention rates. It's not just H1B workers but all these new local hires who are "colonizing" the old tech world.

The second is the way FAANGs have focused on general consumer markets, advertising, and pop culture. To my eye, other markets used to be more influential. These other tech problems and investments remain, but the new media gold rush has seized the attention for many years. Consumer tech has been merging with media in general, and I think the culture inherently shifts in the same way.

The third factor is a bit recursive. The adoption of social media in the general population affects the way that culture evolves. This disproportionately influences young people, and a subset become the next wave of employees mentioned in the first point. But this is also why I wonder if these changes are more global, as my impression is that social media has accelerated the way regional cultural differences are eroding with more frequent and constant cross contact.
Curiously, a nationally notorious lawsuit is not enough to keep you out of Stanford [0].

[0] https://www.popehat.com/p/an-anti-slapp-victory ("An Anti-SLAPP Victory")
It is not against the law to publish photographs of someone without their consent. People post me to Instagram without my consent in Berlin all of the time.
What that has to do with TSA Checkpoint at the airport? How many people go to through that checkpoint isn't dictated by how automated it is - it's dictated by how many people are flying.

All this thing does it speeds up process of you getting through TSA.
Most of the complaints in this fun post are just bad practice, and really nothing to do with “making a Kubernetes”.

Sans bad engineering practices, if you built a system that did the same things as kubernetes I would have no problem with it.

In reality I don’t want everybody to use k8s. I want people finding different solutions to solve similar problems. Homogenized ecosystems create walls they block progress.

One is the big things that is overlooked when people move to k8s, and why things get better when moving to k8s, is that k8s made a set of rules that forced service owners to fix all of their bad practices.

Most deployment systems would work fine if the same work to remove bad practices from their stack occurred.

K8s is the hot thing today, but mark my words, it will be replaced with something far more simple and much nicer to integrate with. And this will come from some engineer “creating a kubernetes”

Don’t even get me started on how crappy the culture of “you are doing something hard that I think is already a solved problem” is. This goes for compilers and databases too. None is these are hard, and neither is k8s, and all good engineers tasked with making one, be able to do so.
How to build your own replica of TARS from Interstellar (2023)
They test the TSA with weapons and most get through. This means people don't wish to use weapons to hijack planes, or it would happen way more often and it doesn't.
Scheme24: Challenges in the Design and Implementation of Teaching Language EDSLs [video]
Yeah, the Lao Tzu I know advises people to be simple, like uncarved blocks of wood.
Unbound is perfect. The CLI is very handy as it allows you invalidate specific domains from the local cache. I have had a good experience with dnsmasq and dnscrypt2 as well.
How can I get my Nissan Leaf to read this paper? Its range has dropped to 50% of new and a refurbished replacement pack cost 150% the value of the car, which is in otherwise excellent condition. It has only 70k miles.
I’m using an internal machine for the VPN server and port forwarded to it from the router. I also have Tailscale set up but if I remember correctly Tailscale requires all devices participating in its VPN to install its software, which is too much.
When I was in school studying NAND devices (2004-2010) we were quite apprehensive at the long term quantum stability of 4-layer devices.

This (the past 20 years of improvement) is an incredible feat of engineering.
After break pads, another good news I see :)
Exactly, love the openness about the training data which none of the big labs disclose, the v2 apparently uses a better mix according to the model card and scores
You might get downvoted a lot, but I feel the exact same way as you do.
Trying to destroy cars is starting to become a political/religious belief.

A lot of people think that people stopped being religious, they dont go to the church.
But 24/7 Internet, TikTok, Youtube Shorts, etc, I think brought the Church to our homes in front of our eyes 24/7, the religion is different and there are many factions, but the obsession with trying to control every part of other people’s lives is starting to comeback.

The people who strongly try to take away other’s freedom to drive cars, eat meat, or so, often like hypocrites support almond milk that is made by mass murder of pollinating bees in california, gazillions worth of water just to grow oats for oatmilk, especially in a world, where in a lot of places, water is considered to become far more scarce in 20 yrs than Crude Oil will be.

Our world has societal problems sure, environmental too, but like always its technology, better, more advanced, much preferred ones, that can fix it, not this obsession with trying to take things away from people.

The internet and being constantly glued to our phones, desks, letting activists indoctrinate people create echo chambers, is leading people to impulsively downvote everyone they disagree with, without any discussion. It has become a religious doctrine, with “sides” to pick, and the apolitical and the agnostic, treated as villains who “support the status quo”.

I hope we can come out of this, what you said about boats and living by the sea, I’ve thought of it too, individualism is a beautiful thing, a human right hard fought across generations, passed on in our societies by our loved ones, who won this for us. I hope our democratic societies can keep it, defend it.
Yates – Prisma with Postgres RLS
Opting out of the face scanner is a totally different experience than opting out of the body scanner lol
The very concept of “offensive security” is indicative of the problem.

If you want to make a secure military base, you do not hire a spec ops team to develop one. If you want to make a bulletproof vest, you do not hire a gunsmith to design new synthetic fibers.

Having offensive teams on hand to verify and validate is necessary, but largely orthogonal to the task of design and development. The skillsets are highly dissimilar.

The fact that people think this is the golden way shows how absolutely intellectually bankrupt the entire commercial cybersecurity industry is on a theoretical level. And the complete inability to protect against the regular and standard threat actors today shows and supports that empirically.
Reading/writing part of the brain is a repurposed part which otherwise responsible for the faces, facial emotions, etc. recognition. Giving the already noticeable decrease of the in-person skills in the young "texting" generations we can speculate where it may go.
Can the west compete?
Yes, they'll be able grasp the beauty of Les Misérables or The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire so long as it is fed to them as a stream of <280 character tweets, dohohoho.

Mr. Munroe is falling victim to the unfortunate phenomenon where people believe their popularity means that their opinions outside of their areas of expertise are well-informed. Whether they can spell better or not, minds weaned on little chunks of text laced with memes and emoji are going to struggle with chapters, let alone full books.
> the most inefficient mode of transport you could imagine

Rockets, helicopters, trebuchet-and-parachute?